Genus Zethopsus Reitter, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zethopsus Reitter, E. 1880. 60 synonymische Bemerkungen. Entomologische Monatsblätter 2: 85-88 [85] [nom. nov. for Zethus Schaufuss, 1872].
• Zethus Schaufuss, L.W. 1872. Tabellen-Entwurf zur Bestimmung der Pselaphiden-Gattungen. Nunquam Otiosus (Dresden) 2: 243-248 [246] [junior homonym of Zethus Fabricius, 1805 and Pander, 1830].

  Type species:

   Zethus opacus Schaufuss, 1877 by subsequent monotypy, see Schaufuss, L.W. 1877. Pselaphiden Siam's. Dresden : Ferdinand Thomas 25 pp. [12].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

22 species are known.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum microtuberculate. Head with frontal rostrum one-third head width; with ten antennomeres, clubs formed by apical antennomeres X; maxillary palpi with third segments nearly as large as second segments, fourth segments transverse, only fourth segments with large truncate tubercle bearing hemispherical cap. Pronotum with median discal impression, median antebasal impression divided by longitudinal carina. Elytra with carinae on lateral margins

 

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] [78]

Coulon, G. 1989. Révision générique des Bythinoplectini Schaufuss, 1890 (= Pyxidicerini Raffray, 1903, syn. nov.) (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae, Faroninae). Mémoires de la Société Royale Entomologie de Belgique 34: 1-282 [125]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [23]

 

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)