Genus Reichenbachia Leach, 1826

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• Reichenbachia Leach, W.E. 1826. On the stirpes and genera composing the family Pselaphidae; with descriptions of some new species. Zoological Journal London 2: 445-453 [451].

  Type species:

   Bryaxis juncorum Leach, 1817 by subsequent designation, see Bowman, J.R. 1934. The Pselaphidae of North America. Pittsburgh : Privately published 149 pp. [144].
• Dierobia Thomson, C.G. 1859. Skandinaviens Coleoptera synoptiskt bearbetade. Lund : Berlingska Boktryckeriet Tom 1 394 pp. [54] [junior objective synonym of Reichenbachia Leach, 1826, same type species].

  Type species:

   Bryaxis juncorum Leach, 1817 by original designation.
• Dicrobia Reitter, E. 1881. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. V. Enthaltend die Familien: Paussidae, Clavigeridae, Pselaphidae und Scydmaenidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 443-592 [474] [misspelling].
• Reichenbachius Casey, T.L. 1906. Observations on the staphylinid groups Aleocharinae and Xantholinini, chiefly of America. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 16: 125-434 [359] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Reichenbachia Leach, 1826].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reitter, E. 1881. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. V. Enthaltend die Familien: Paussidae, Clavigeridae, Pselaphidae und Scydmaenidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 443-592 [474] (misspelled as Dicrobia)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

340 species are known.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Diagnosis

Head with vertexal foveae; frontal fovea variably present; antennal clubs formed by apical 1-3 antennomeres; ventrolateral margins with lateral carinae from head base to beneath eyes; with low median gular carina. Pronotum with setose lateral antebasal foveae, small median antebasal fovea nude. Elytra with 2-3 basal foveae, with discal striae elongate. Visible tergite 1 (IV) with setose mediobasal impression; visible sternite 2 (IV) with setose basolateral sulci.

 

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] [349]

Jeannel, R. 1950. Coléoptères Psélaphides. Faune de France. Paris : Lechevalier Vol. 53 iii 421 pp. [319]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [233]

 

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)