Genus Plagiophorus Motschulsky, 1851
- Plagiophorus Motschulsky, V. von 1851. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés par M. Victor Motschulsky de son dernier voyage. 1 Pselaphiens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 24(2): 479-511 [492].
Type species:
Plagiophorus paradoxus Motschulsky, 1851 by subsequent designation. - Cyathiger King, R.L. 1865. On the Pselaphidae of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 167-175, pl. XIV [174].
Type species:
Cyathiger punctatus King, 1865 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
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)
Diagnosis
Body densely punctate. Head with seven antennomeres, clubs formed by large antennomeres VII. Pronotum with antebasal foveae indistinct. Elytra with 0-2 basal foveae, foveae punctiform when present. Visible tergites 1-3 (IV-VI) and visible sternites 1-4 (III-VI) fused into cylinder. Metathorax and abdominal sternites with prominent ventrolateral carinae.
ID Keys
Key to Australian species (Chandler 1986: 120).
1. Impression of antennal club conspicuously pebbled, glabrous; New South Wales … punctatus King
Impression of antennal club smooth or minutely roughened, surface dull or shining … 2
2. (1) Impression of antennal club with dull surface, minutelyroughened; Queensland … leai Chandler
Impression of antennal club glabrous, shining … 3
3. (2) Antennal club with ventral angle distinct (Fig. 3); Queensland … kingi Chandler
Antennal club with ventral margin smoothly rounded (Fig. 4); New South Wales … simulator Lea
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] [395]
Raffray, A. 1895. Revision des Psélaphides des Iles de Singapore et de Penang. (Suite et fin). Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 14: 21-82, pl. 2 [46]
Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [301]
History of changes
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