Genus Tyromorphus Raffray, 1883

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• Tyromorphus Raffray, A. 1883. Psélaphides nouveaux ou peu connus. Deuxieme memoire. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 2: 229-251, pls 4-5 [Date published Sept. 1883] [240].

  Type species:

   Tyromorphus nitidus Raffray, 1883 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

This genus is based on 7 Australian species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

Diagnosis

Vertexal foveae small, punctiform; maxillary palpi robust, third segments triangular, widest at middle, fourth segments broad and of even width through most of length. Pronotum with median antebasal fovea small and punctiform, lacking lateral antebasal foveae and antebasal sulcus. Abdomen with visible tergites 1 and 4 (IV and VII) longest.

 

ID Keys

See (Raffray, A., 1900) [277], Tyromorphus plus Tyromacrus.

 

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] [453]

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] [159] (redescription)

Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [227] (redescription)

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [391]

 

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)