Subtribe Natypleurina Newton & Thayer, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Natypleurina Newton, A.F., Jr & Thayer, M.K 1992. Current classification and family-group names in Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera). Fieldiana Zoology ns 67: 1-92 [20] [nom. nov. for Tanypleurina Park, 1951, see Newton, A.F., Jr. & Thayer, M.K 1992. Current classification and family-group names in Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera). Fieldiana Zoology ns 67: 1–92 p. 20].

  Type genus:

   Natypleurus Newton & Thayer, 1992 [new name for Tanypleurus Raffray, 1890].
• Tanypleurina Park, O. 1951. Cavernicolous pselaphid beetles of Alabama and Tennessee, with observations on the taxonomy of the family. Geological Survey of Alabama, Museum Paper 31: 1-107 [61] [based on preoccupied generic name, see Newton, A.F., Jr. & Thayer, M.K 1992. Current classification and family-group names in Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera). Fieldiana Zoology ns 67: 1–92 p. 20].

  Type genus:

   Tanypleurus Raffray, 1890 [not Steenstrup & Luetken, 1861].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Newton, A.F., Jr & Thayer, M.K 1992. Current classification and family-group names in Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera). Fieldiana Zoology ns 67: 1-92 [20] (Tanypleurina based on preoccupied generic name)

Introduction

This group is known only from the Oriental Region and northeastern Australia, and consists of five genera. Two genera occur in Australia: Apoplectus Raffray, and Simplicorfa Chandler (Chandler 2001: 380).

Diagnosis

Maxillary palpi with fourth segments small, bases truncate, lateral and mesal margins gently convex; antennal clubs formed by large antennomeres XI, antennomeres IX and X much smaller, often no larger than VIII (Simplicorfa an exception); head with or without narrow postantennal sulci at lateral margins, never enlarged as setose incisions. Body cylindrical in cross section.

ID Keys

See key under Iniocyphini.

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] [380]

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]

History of changes