Genus Apoplectus Raffray, 1890

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• Apoplectus Raffray, A. 1890. Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableux synoptiques. - Notes et synonymie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9: 81-172 [Date published March-June 1890] [102].

  Type species:

   Euplectus crassus Raffray, 1882 by monotypy.
• Glapharsenus Raffray, A. 1903. Voyage de M. L. Biró dans les possessions allemandes de la Nouvelle-Guinée. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 1: 29-101, pls 1-2 [86] [junior subjective synonym of Apoplectus Raffray, 1890].

  Type species:

   Glapharsenus asperatus Raffray, 1903 by subsequent designation, see Newton, A.F. & Chandler, D.S. 1989. World Catalog of the Genera of Pselaphidae (Coleoptera). Fieldiana Zoology ns 53: 1-93 [Date published 28 April 1989] [50].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1-400 [301]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Based on 7 species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Oriental Region

Diagnosis

Antennal clubs formed by large ovoidal antennomeres XI. Pronotum with isolated large median and lateral antebasal foveae. Elytra with 2 basal foveae, lacking discal striae or impressions, with subhumeral foveae, narrow sulci extending posteriorly from subhumeral foveae and fading out before elytral apices. Visible tergites 1-4 (IV-VII) with paratergites.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [380]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [273]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)