Genus Coryphomodes Jeannel, 1960

Museums

Regional Maps

• Coryphomodes Jeannel, R. 1960. Sur les Pselaphides (Coleoptera) de l'Inde septentrionale. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 9: 403-456 [416].

  Type species:

   Coryphomodes cristatus Jeannel, 1960 by original designation.
• Coryphomodes Jeannel, R. 1959. Révision des Psélaphides de l'Afrique intertropicale. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren 8, Zool. 75: 1-742 [408] [nom. nud., no described species included].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

21 species from eastern Oriental Region to Japan and Australia (14 of these are from Australia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Diagnosis

Head narrowed apically; with median longitudinal carina on vertex; lacking frontal rostrum. Pronotum with spines between median and lateral antebasal foveae, lateral margins carinate or ridged anterior to lateral antebasal foveae; lateral longitudinal sulci present. Elytra with 3 basal foveae, inner 2 close, discal stria short or lacking. Visible tergite 1 (IV) with short outer marginal carinae, thinner inner carinae reaching tergite apex; 2-3 (V-VI) with distinct to faint marginal carinae.

 

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] [265]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Mar-2016		20-Apr-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)