Genus Euplectus Leach, 1817

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Genus Euplectus Leach, 1817

Euplectus Leach, W.E. 1817. On the stirpes and genera composing the family Pselaphidea [sic]; with descriptions of some new species. Zoological Miscellany 3: 80-87 [80].
Type species:
Euplectus reichenbachii Leach, 1817 by monotypy (= Pselaphus nanus Reichenbach).

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

Jeannel, R. 1950. Coléoptères Psélaphides. Faune de France. Paris : Lechevalier Vol. 53 iii 421 pp. [121]
Chandler, D.S. The Australian Faunal Directory, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (the subgenera of Euplectus have not been used in the literature for the past 50 years and have never been synonymised; only the names described prior to this time have been placed in subgenera)

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

A large genus, with a single introduced Palaearctic species in Australia.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- Tasmania

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Palaearctic Region

Diagnosis

Body elongate and flattened. Head quadrate to broadly trapezoidal, with vertexal foveae nude, lateral arms of vertexal sulcus nearly parallel then abruptly transverse at short, sharply defined interantennal bridge. Pronotum with median discal impression, antebasal foveae distinct, with antebasal sulcus connecting them; lateral margins smoothly denticulate adjacent to lateral antebasal foveae; with anteroprosternal foveae. Elytra with 2-4 basal foveae, with subhumeral fovea. Lateral metasternal foveae lacking. Visible tergites 1-2 (IV-V) with setose impressions between mediobasal foveae at bases of discal carinae; 4 (VII) longest, 1-3 (IV-VI) subequal in length.