Genus Batraxis Reitter, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Batraxis Reitter, E. 1881. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. V. Enthaltend die Familien: Paussidae, Clavigeridae, Pselaphidae und Scydmaenidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 443-592 [464].

  Type species:

   Batraxis hampei Reitter, 1881 by monotypy.
• Batraxys Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [147] [unnecessary emendation].
• Batrisomorpha Raffray, A. 1882. Psélaphides nouveaux ou peu connus. ler memoire. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 1: 1-16, 25-40, 49-64, 73-85, pls 1-2 [Date published Jan. 1882] [38] [junior subjective synonym of Batraxis Reitter, 1881].

  Type species:

   Bryaxis armitagei King, 1863 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] [46].
• Raffrayella Blattný, C. 1925. Revision der Pselaphiden der Collection Helfer. Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze 3: 179-222 [204].

  Type species:

   Raffrayella raffrayana Blattný, 1925 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raffray, A. 1893. Révision des Psélaphides de Sumatra. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61: 463-504, pl. 10 [Date published 1892] [490] (Batrisomorpha listed as synonym)
• Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [147] (Batraxys, unnecessary emendation)
• Besuchet, C. 1986. Synonymes et homonyme nouveaux de quelques genres de Psélaphides (Coleoptera). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93: 257-264 [259] (synonymy of Raffrayella Blattný, 1925)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

43 species are known, with 4 of these occuring in Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), New England Tablelands (NET) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Diagnosis

Head with nude vertexal foveae; short transverse sulci originating at lateral margins of head posterior to antennal tubercles; antennae with clubs formed by apical 2 antennomeres; with median gular carina narrow. Pronotum with antebasal foveae small to lacking; abdomen with lateral margins broadly rounded. Visible tergite 1 (IV) smoothly rounded laterally, or with single marginal carinae, or with paratergites indicated by only short carinae at base; 1 (IV) with setose mediobasal impression and foveae; visible sternite 2 (IV) with deep basolateral sulci.

 

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] [306]

Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [147]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [200]

 

History of changes

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01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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