Genus Mallanganee Chandler, 2001

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• Mallanganee 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] [332].

  Type species:

   Mallanganee greeni Chandler, 2001 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

This genus is based on 2 Australian species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), New England Tablelands (NET) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

Diagnosis

Head usually with distinct frontal fovea, with setose vertexal foveae; distinct dorsal postantennal pits present; antennal clubs formed by apical 3 antennomeres; ventrolateral margins of head smoothly convex beneath eyes; gula smoothly and convexly rounded, low gular carina faint. Pronotum with angular antebasal sulcus distinct to faint; lateral antebasal foveae setose, median antebasal fovea barely indicated to lacking. Elytra with 2-3 basal foveae, with elongate discal stria. Visible tergite 1 (IV) with mediobasal impression and foveae; visible sternite 2 (IV) with deep basolateral sulci.

 

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] [332]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)