Subtribe Tyrina Reitter, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tyrina Reitter, E. 1882 [1881]. Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Clavigeriden und Pselaphiden. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 20: 177-211 [Date published 1882] [185].

  Type genus:

   Tyrus Aubé, 1833.
• Chalcoplectini Oke, C. 1925. New Australian Coleoptera. Victorian Naturalist 42(1): 6-15 [13].

  Type genus:

   Chalcoplectus Oke, 1925.
• Ceophyllini Park, O. 1951. Cavernicolous pselaphid beetles of Alabama and Tennessee, with observations on the taxonomy of the family. Geological Survey of Alabama, Museum Paper 31: 1-107 [67].

  Type genus:

   Ceophyllus LeConte, 1849.

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] [414] (both Chalcoplectini and Ceophyllini synonymized)

Introduction

Sixty genera are placed in the Tyrina, and this subtribe is present on all continents (Chandler 2001: 414).

Diagnosis

Maxillary palpi with third segments elongate, usually half as long as the fourth segments or longer; fourth segments elongate. Metasternal apex usually wide between metacoxae and broadly emarginate or truncate, rarely with an apical notch

ID Keys

See key to genera of Tyrini.

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] [414]

Jeannel, R. 1954 [1953]. Les Pselaphides de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar Série E: Entomologie 4: 151-344 [Date published 1954] [268]

General 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]

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