Genus Scabritia Chandler, 2001

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• Scabritia 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] [182].

  Type species:

   Scabritia microphthalmus Chandler, 2001 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum roughened to coarsely punctate; vertexal sulcus faint to absent, small antennal tubercles knobbed and smooth; venter lacking apicolateral genal tubercles; gula with median carina. Pronotum with antebasal sulcus indistinct to faint, only lateral antebasal foveae present; with median prosternal carina. Elytra with three basal foveae; discal striae extending to elytral apices. Single median mesosternal fovea, simple lateral mesosternal foveae. Visible tergites 1-4 (IV-VII) subequal in length.

 

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] [183]

 

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)