Genus Tmesiphorus LeConte, 1849

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• Tmesiphorus LeConte, J.L. 1849. On the Pselaphidae of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6: 64-110 [75].

  Type species:

   Pselaphus carinatus Say, 1824 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 [643].
• Sintectes Westwood, J.O. 1870. Descriptions of twelve new exotic species of the Coleopterous family Pselaphidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 18: 125-132 [Date published June 1870] [129] [junior subjective synonym of Tmesiphorus LeConte, 1849].

  Type species:

   Sintectes carinatus Westwood, 1870 by monotypy (= Tmesiphorus westwoodi Raffray).
• Glyptosoma Motschulsky, V. 1851. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou première partie 24: 479-511 [480] [junior subjective synonym of Tmesiphorus LeConte, 1849].

  Type species:

   Glyptosoma paulinae Motschulsky, 1851 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [151] (synonymy of Sintectes Westwood, 1870)
• Besuchet, C. 1986. Synonymes et homonyme nouveaux de quelques genres de Psélaphides (Coleoptera). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93: 257-264 [260] (synonoymy of Glyptosoma Motschulsky, 1851)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

60 species are described, with 14 species in Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Vic: Flinders (FLI), South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum coarsely punctate. Head with frontal and vertexal foveae; maxillary palpi with second and third segments bearing lateral spines, fourth segments strongly lobed laterally, apices sharply acute. Abdomen with visible tergite 2 (V) longest or subequal in length with 1 (IV).

 

ID Keys

Key to species groups, see (Raffray, A., 1904) [337].

 

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] [479]

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] [151]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [373]

 

History of changes

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