Species Pedisinops kethleyi Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pedisinops kethleyi 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] [345].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, [Port] Warrender, Mitchell Plateau, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 2.2 mm. Body covered with short, dense, decumbent setae. Maxillary palpi relatively slender, third segments longer than wide, second segments slender. Visible tergite 1 (IV) with discal carinae extending over half tergite length. Male eyes with about 30 facets; clypeus with narrow, transverse incision extending laterally to beneath antennae, small medial shelf of clypeus bearing two tufts of setae, ventral margin of incision broadly expanded, prominently tuberculate in lateral view; antennomeres III less than two-thirds length of II, as thick as II. Protrochanters with small spine on ventral margins; profemora normal in form, not obliquely constricted on dorsal portion of apical half; mesotibiae with curved spine at apices.

 

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] [345]

 

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)