Pselaphinae

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Descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera of South Africa

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea
Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Pselaphinae
Supertribus: Batrisitae - Clavigeritae - Euplectitae - Faronitae - Goniaceritae - Pselaphitae

[edit] Name

Pselaphidae Latreille, 1802 [downgraded to subfamily of Staphylinidae by Newton & Thayer (1995)]

[edit] References

• Carlton, C.E.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2008: Description of the larva of Pselaphophus atriventris (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Pselaphini) with notes on its life history and a list of described pselaphine immature stages. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101: 13-19. PDF
• Chandler, D.S. 2001: Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Memoirs on entomology, international, 15
• Hlaváč, P.; Monteith, G.B.; Dunay, G. 2006: Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. I. Taomica, new genus of Pselaphini and a catalogue of Pselaphinae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 52: 79-85. PDF
• Latreille, P.A. 1802: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genres, vol. 3. F. Dufart, Paris. 387 pp., pls 16-37.
• Newton, A.F., jr.; Chandler, D.S. 1989: World catalog of the genera of Pselaphidae (Coleoptera). Fieldiana zoology (n.s.), (53): 1–93. Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Newton, A.F., jr.; Thayer, M.K. 1995: Protopselaphinae new subfamily for Protopselaphus new genus from Malaysia, with a phylogenetic analysis and review of the Omaliine Group of Staphylinidae including Pselaphidae (Coleoptera). Pp. 219-320 in Pakaluk, J.; Slipinski, S.A. (eds) Biology, phylogeny, and classification of Coleoptera: papers celebrating the 80th birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Volume 1. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warsaw, Poland.
• Nomura, S.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2006: Faunistic review on the pselaphine species known from New Zealand (Insecta, Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). National Science Museum monographs, 34: 239-272.

[edit] links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Atlas of the family Pselaphidae of Russia

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