Tribe Odontalgini Jeannel, 1949

Museums

Regional Maps

• Odontalgini Jeannel, R. 1949. Les Psélaphides de l'Afrique Orientale (Coleoptera). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 29: 1-226 [177].

  Type genus:

   Odontalgus Raffray, 1877.

Introduction

This small but distinctive tribe is represented by 5 genera from central Africa, Madagascar, the Oriental Region, and Australia (Chandler 2001: 461).

Diagnosis

Body generally compact, body and legs with grooves for folding of appendages; body with squamous setae. Head with distinct frontal rostrum, antennal tubercles distinct; ocular-mandibular carinae weakly developed to lacking, gular-mandibular carinae strongly developed on ventrolateral margins; clypeal apex broadly rounded, lateral margins relatively straight to eyes; maxillary palpi lacking lateral setae or tubercles, second and fourth segments long and basally pedunculate, third segments elongate but shorter, not strongly pedunculate. Pronotal disc variously impressed and ridged; lacking paranotal carinae. Abdomen with deep setose basal sulci on visible tergite 1 (IV) and visible sternite 2 (IV); visible tergite 4 (VII) with adjacent paratergites. Legs with third tarsomeres as long as basal two combined; with 2 tarsal claws.

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] [461]

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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