Genus Euplectops Reitter, 1882

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• Euplectops Reitter, E. 1882 [1881]. Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Clavigeriden und Pselaphiden. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 20: 177-211 [Date published 1882] [210].

  Type species:

   Euplectus odewahni King, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [132].
• Trychioplectus Raffray, A. 1898. Notes sur les Psélaphides. Révision générique de la tribu des Euplectini. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 17: 198-273 [Date published Aug.-Nov. 1898] [272] [junior subjective synonym of Euplectops Reitter, 1882].

  Type species:

   Trychioplectus geminatus Raffray, 1898 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [166]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

This genus holds 6 Australian species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Ranges (CR), Flinders (FLI), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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) ; NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Diagnosis

Head with low, knobbed antennal tubercles; with V-shaped vertexal sulcus; venter lacking apicolateral genal tubercles. Pronotum with distinct antebasal sulcus connecting lateral and median antebasal foveae, disc with median sulcus typically distinct (rarely faint); lateral longitudinal sulci often as distinct as median sulcus; prosternum usually convexly rounded, rarely carinate. Elytra with four basal foveae, with elongate discal stria. Promesocoxal foveae present; single median mesosternal fovea; with 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] [164]

Raffray, A. 1898. Notes sur les Psélaphides. Révision générique de la tribu des Euplectini. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 17: 198-273 [Date published Aug.-Nov. 1898] [268]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [109]

 

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)