Genus Pedisinops Newton & Chandler, 1989

Museums

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• Pedisinops 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] [43] [nom. nov. for Pedinopsis Raffray, 1890].
• Pedinopsis 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] [102] [junior homonym of Pedinopsis Cotteau, 1863].

  Type species:

   Euplectus major Raffray, 1882 by monotypy.
• Halohermatus Sawada, K. 1991. On new genera and species of intertidal Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and Goniacerinae (Pselaphinae) from Singapore and Japan. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 39: 141-152 [148].

  Type species:

   Halohermatus regulus Sawada, 1991 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [345] (Halohermatus synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Diagnosis

Head with setose vertexal foveae; antennal clubs formed by apical 3 antennomeres; ventrolateral margins broadly rounded and swollen to prominent, narrow, median gular carina. Pronotum with antebasal foveae setose, median antebasal fovea smaller. Elytra with 2 basal foveae, with elongate discal striae. Visible tergite 1 (IV) with mediobasal foveae and impression; visible sternite 2 (IV) with deep basolateral sulci. Tarsal claws long.

 

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] [343]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [253]

 

History of changes

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01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)