Genus Ctenicellus Raffray, 1904

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Regional Maps

• Ctenicellus Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1-400 [344].

  Type species:

   Ctenicellus major Raffray, 1904 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] [54].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

3 species are known from Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Diagnosis

Head with frontal and vertexal foveae; third and fourth segments of maxillary palpi angularly rounded, with long coalesced pencils of setae forming apparent spines; gula with prominent median carina. Pronotum with setose sulci extending to base from median and lateral antebasal foveae. Abdomen with visible tergite 2 (V) longest.

 

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] [485]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [345]

 

History of changes

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01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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