Genus Stipesa Sharp, 1874

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Genus Stipesa Sharp, 1874

Stipesa Sharp, D. 1874. The Pselaphidae and Scydmaenidae of Japan. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 12: 105-130 [108].
Type species:
Stipesa rudis Sharp, 1874 by monotypy.
Filiger Schaufuss, L.W. 1877. Pselaphiden Siam's. Dresden : Ferdinand Thomas 25 pp. [17].
Type species:
Filiger ampliventris Schaufuss, 1877 by subsequent designation, see Lucas, R. 1920. Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (famil., trib., subtr., sect. incl.). Pars I. (1918). Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 84(1-5): 1-696, i-xxxi [295].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Jeannel, R. 1959. Révision des Psélaphides de l'Afrique intertropicale. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren 8, Zool. 75: 1-742 [569]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

23 species are known, one occurs in Australia.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Diagnosis

Body covered with squamous setae; head with narrow prominent rostrum; vertexal and frontal foveae present; maxillary palpi very small, 2 segmented. Pronotum with median antebasal fovea obscured by squamous setae. Abdominal tergites subequal in length; paratergites narrow, barely protruding.