Genus Washpool Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Washpool 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] [139].

  Type species:

   Washpool pristinus Chandler, 2001 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Based on a single Australian species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria

Diagnosis

Head with small knobbed antennal tubercles; with V-shaped impression connecting vertexal foveae; ocular mandibular carinae prominent, notched near eyes. Pronotum with disc convex; antebasal sulcus often weak between median and lateral antebasal foveae; prosternum with rounded median ridge. Elytra with 2 basal foveae; discal stria short. Median mesosternal foveae widely separated; lateral mesosternal foveae forked internally. Visible tergite 1 (IV) longest, as long as 2-3 (V-VI) combined.

 

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] [139]

 

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)