Genus Margaris Schaufuss, 1877

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• Margaris Schaufuss, L.W. 1877. Ueber Pselaphidengattungen. Nunquam Otiosus (Dresden) 2: 450-460 [Date published Aug. 1877] [453].

  Type species:

   Margaris imperialis Schaufuss, 1877 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

This genus is based on a single species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Diagnosis

Head with broad prominent frontal rostrum, rostrum with broad glabrous median impression, impression margined with squamous setae laterally; antennomeres transversely moniliform, antennal clubs indistinct; maxillary palpi with third segments short and triangular, fourth segments elongate, gradually widening to apices. Pronotal disc with 2 longitudinal ridges, lateral antebasal foveae small. Elytra with 3 discal striae. Abdomen with apices of visible tergites 1-3 (IV-VI) acutely angulate.

 

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] [515]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [312]

 

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)