Subgenus Eupines (Eupines) King, 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupines King, R.L. 1866. On the Pselaphidae of Australia. No. IV. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 299-315 [309-310].

  Type species:

   Bryaxis clavatula King, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Jeannel, R. 1952. Psélaphides de Saigon. Revue Française d'Entomologie 19: 69-113 [84]; 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 [84].
• Brabaxis Raffray, A. 1890. Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableux synoptiques. - Notes et synonymie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9: 81-172 [Date published March-June 1890] [125].

  Type species:

   Bryaxis siamensis Schaufuss, 1877 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] [45] (= Bryaxis sphaerica Motschulsky).
• Brabaxys Raffray, A. 1897. Nouvelles Études sur les Psélaphides et les Clavigérides. (1896). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 65: 227-284, pls 10-11 [258] [misspelling for Brabaxis].
• Patranus Raffray, A. 1890. Étude sur le Psélaphides. V. Tableux synoptiques. - Notes et synonymie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9: 81-172 [Date published March-June 1890] [123] [junior subjective synonym of Eupines King, 1866].

  Type species:

   Tychus politus Schaufuss, 1886 by monotypy (= Bryaxis globulifer Schaufuss).
• Eupinoda Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [168].

  Type species:

   Eupinoda leana Raffray, 1900 by subsequent designation, see Lucas, R. 1920. Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (famil., trib., subtr., sect. incl.). Pars I. (1918). Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 84(1-5): 1-696, i-xxxi [284].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raffray, A. 1897. Nouvelles Études sur les Psélaphides et les Clavigérides. (1896). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 65: 227-284, pls 10-11 [256] (Brabaxis and Patranus 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] [320] (Eupinoda synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Diagnosis

The males and females of the nominate subgenus Eupines have 11 antennomeres, while the males in the subgenus Byraxis the males have only 10 antennomeres, while the females have eleven.

 

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] [323]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Jun-2022	STAPHYLINIDAE	18-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)