Tribe Hybocephalini Raffray, 1890

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• Hybocephalini 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] [135].

  Type genus:

   Hybocephalus Motschulsky, 1851.
• Mestogastrina Jakobson, G.G. 1910. Zhuki Rossii i zapodnoi Evropy. St. Petersburg, Russia : A.F. Devriena Vol. 8 561-640 pp. 62-68 pls. [585].

  Type genus:

   Mestogaster Schmidt-Goebel, 1838.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [12]

Introduction

The 10 described genera are found in Africa and the Oriental Region, with Stipesa Sharp now known from Australia (Chandler 2001: 495).

Diagnosis

Squamous setae present over most of body; body generally compact; at least head and pronotum usually closely punctate. Head with frontal rostrum short but prominent and narrow; antennal insertions close, antennomeres short and transverse; lacking ocular-mandibular carinae; clypeal apex broadly rounded, lateral margins relatively straight to eyes; carinate ventrolateral margins continuing apically to form ridge of clypeal apex; maxillary palpi small, with 2 or 3 segments except in Mestogaster Schmidt-Göbel, first segments of maxillary palpi short and indistinct. Pronotum lacking antebasal sulcus and paranotal carinae. Abdomen with visible tergite 1 (IV) not markedly longer than the other tergites except in Mestogaster; visible tergite 1 (IV) and visible sternite 2 (IV) with deep basal sulci; paratergites narrow and obscure, projecting only in Apharina Reitter. Legs with only single claws on tarsi.

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] [495]

Jeannel, R. 1949. Les Psélaphides de l'Afrique Orientale (Coleoptera). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 29: 1-226 [175]

Jeannel, R. 1951. Psélaphides de l'Angola (Coléoptères) recueillis par M. A. Barros Machado. Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 9: 1-125 [101]

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] [135]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [317]

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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