Subtribe Bibloporina Park, 1951

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bibloporini Park, O. 1951. Cavernicolous pselaphid beetles of Alabama and Tennessee, with observations on the taxonomy of the family. Geological Survey of Alabama, Museum Paper 31: 1-107 [64] [proposed as subtribe].

  Type genus:

   Bibloporus Thomson, 1859.
• Bibloporellina Jeannel, R. 1952. Psélaphides recueillis par N. Leleup au Congo Belge. IV. Faune de l'Itombwe et de la Forêt de Rugege. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren Série 8o: Sciences Zoologiques 11: 1-295 [92] [junior subjective synonym of Bibloporina Park, 1951].

  Type genus:

   Bibloporellus Jeannel, 1949.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [240]

Introduction

This group of 13 genera is defined by the lack of an antebasal sulcus on the pronotum, and have the lateal mesosternal foveae usually broadly meeting and forming a linear internal tube (Chandler 2001: 240).

Diagnosis

Antennal tubercles lacking or low and knobbed; head venter with prominent setose lateroapical tubercles or angular ridges; gular foveae close in deep pit; gula with thin median carina; setae on head venter short. Pronotal base usually smooth, lacking distinct constricted band, lacking antebasal sulcus, antebasal foveae isolated when present; prosternum with or without median longitudinal carina. Elytra often with discal stria short to lacking (long in Bartle). Thorax with lateral mesosternal foveae large and usually with axes forming straight line, broadly meeting internally or forming continuous linear tube (foveae widely separated in Praeruptifrons). Abdomen with visible tergite 1 (IV) lacking mediobasal foveae; lateral sclerites (tergites IX) of seventh visible ventral segment of males usually very small, penial plate (sternite IX) large.

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] [239]

General 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]

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