Supertribe Faronitae Reitter, 1882

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• Faronitae Reitter, E. 1882 [1881]. Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Clavigeriden und Pselaphiden. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 20: 177-211 [Date published 1882] [199].

  Type genus:

   Faronus Aubé, 1844.

  Secondary source:

   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] [86]; Raffray, A. 1893. Essai monographique sur la tribu des Faronini (Psélaphiens). Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 12: 1-53, pl. 1 [1]; Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [13]; Park, O. 1942. A study in Neotropical Pselaphidae. Number 1. Evanston and Chicago : Northwestern University Studies in the Biological Sciences and Medicine x + 403 pp. [35]; Jeannel, R. 1949. Les Psélaphides de l'Afrique Orientale (Coleoptera). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 29: 1-226 [16]; Jeannel, R. 1950. Coléoptères Psélaphides. Faune de France. Paris : Lechevalier Vol. 53 iii 421 pp. [46]; Jeannel, R. 1954 [1953]. Les Pselaphides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar Série E: Entomologie 4: 151-344 [Date published 1954] [153].

Introduction

This tribe holds 20 genera, and its members are primarily temperate in distribution. The very few species from tropical areas seen have are usually from high elevations in mountains. The greatest number of genera and species are in the southern temperate areas of South America, South Africa, Madagascar, and especially Australia and New Zealand. The two Australian genera also occur in New Zealand (Chandler 2001: 46).

Diagnosis

Body elongate and flattened; antennae usually lacking distinct club. Prothorax with median procoxal fovea (frequent meso- and metathoracic pattern, Fig. 2). Elytra often with discal foveae. Legs with trochanters of second and third pairs of legs with angle of joint to femora acute, dorsal extension of femora close to coxal articulation; tarsi with two equal claws; first two tarsomeres short and subequal in length, third tarsomeres much longer; metacoxae contiguous. Aedeagus usually asymmetric, often lacking distinct median lobe or internal musculature, parameres present; males with penial plate (sternite IX) and lateral sclerites (tergites IX) composing seventh visible ventral segment.

ID Keys

Key to Australian genera (Chandler 2001: 46).

1. Frontal rostrum of head divided by thin median longitudinal line or distinct sulcus; visible tergite 3 (VI) often twice or more length of visible tergite 2 (V) (Fig. 32) … Sagola Sharp

Frontal rostrum with vertexal apex lacking median longitudinal line or sulcus; visible tergite 3 (VI) varying from shorter than visible tergite 2 (V) to half again as long (Fig. 31) … Logasa Chandler

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] [46]

Newton, A.F., Jr & Thayer, M.A. 1995. Protopselaphinae new subfamily for Protopselaphus new genus from Malaysia, with a phylogenetic analysis and review of the Omaliine group of Staphylinidae including Pselaphidae (Coleoptera). pp. 219-320 in Pakaluk, J. & Ślipiński, S.A. (eds). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera; Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Warszawa : Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN Vol. 1 xii + 558 pp. [303]

General 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]

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