Genus Syntectodes Reitter, 1882

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• Syntectodes Reitter, E. 1882 [1881]. Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Clavigeriden und Pselaphiden. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 20: 177-211 [Date published 1882] [202].

  Type species:

   Syntectodes diversipalpus Reitter, 1885 by subsequent monotypy, see Reitter, E. 1885. Abbildungen und Bemerkungen zu wenig gekannten Pselaphiden-Gattungen mit Beschreibungen neuer Arten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 333-339, pls 2-3 [333].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

3 species are known.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Diagnosis

Head with frontal and vertexal foveae; ocular canthi protruding as spines; maxillary palpi with third segments acutely angulate laterally, fourth segments broadly lobed laterally. Pronotum with median antebasal fovea distinct, lateral antebasal foveae small and punctiform; disc with blunt tubercle just anterior to lateral antebasal foveae. Abdomen with visible tergite 2 (V) longest.

 

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] [476]

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] [152]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [372]

 

History of changes

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01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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