Genus Daveyia Lea, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Daveyia Lea, A.M. 1912. Australian and Tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or resorting to the nests of ants, bees, and termites. Supplement. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 25(1): 31-78 pl. II [Date published Aug. 1912] [45].

  Type species:

   Daveyia mira Lea, 1912 by monotypy.
• Petanops Jeannel, R. 1954. Description d'un Psélaphide australien type d'une tribu nouvelle. Revue Française d'Entomologie 21: 99-102 [99].

  Type species:

   Petanops armstrongi Jeannel, 1954 by original designation.

 

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] [492]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

A single species is known.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Diagnosis

Head with large vertexal foveae; lacking frontal rostrum; ocular canthi developed as large plates that nearly divide eyes in half; clypeus broadly lobed laterally; maxillary palpi with second segments thickened, third segments bluntly triangular, fourth segments triangular and much smaller, inserted on mesal margins of third segments. Pronotum with large median and lateral antebasal foveae. Abdomen with visible tergite 1 (IV) 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] [490]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Mar-2016		13-May-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)