Genus Plectusodes Raffray, 1898

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• Plectusodes Raffray, A. 1898. Notes sur les Psélaphides. Révision générique de la tribu des Euplectini. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 17: 198-273 [Date published Aug.-Nov. 1898] [261].

  Type species:

   Plectusodes breviceps Raffray, 1898 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Based on 7 species from Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), New England Tablelands (NET) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Diagnosis

Head with setose vertexal foveae connected by broad V-shaped impression; antennal tubercles prominent; head base with median indentation; venter with short apicolateral genal tubercles or angulations; with median gular carina. Pronotal disc with median sulcus or elongate fovea; median antebasal fovea extended posteriorly as deep sulcus; lateral margins emarginate adjacent to lateral antebasal foveae; base with narrow granulate band. Elytra with 2-4 basal foveae. Median mesosternal foveae forked; lateral mesosternal foveae forked. Visible tergites 1-4 (IV-VII) subequal in length.

 

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] [129]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [100]

 

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)