Megalopsidiinae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Megalopsidiinae
Genera (1): Megalopinus

Name

Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920: 98

• Type genus: Megalopsidia Leng, 1918 [synonym of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915]

Synonymy

• Megalopsidiini Leng, 1920: 98 [original name]
• Megalopini Erichson, 1839: 30 [preoccupied genus name, not Megalops Lacepède, 1803 [Pisces], not Megalops Rafinesque, 1815 [Pisces]; syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915]
  • Type genus: Megalops Erichson, 1839.
• Aulacotrachelinae L. Benick, 1920: 1 [syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915; replacement name for Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 because of the homonymy of the type genus]
  • Type genus: Aulacotrachelus Benick, 1920.
• Stylopodinae Blackwelder, 1943: 202
  • Type genus: Stylopodus Benick, 1917 [syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915; name proposed to replace Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 and Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920 because of the synonymy of the type genus].
• Megalopininae Puthz, 1967: 192 [unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1)]
  • Type genus: Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915.
• Megalopininae Naomi, 1986: 344 [name proposed to replace Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 and Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920 because of the synonymy of the type genus]
  • Type genus: Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915.

References

Primary references

• Leng, C.W. 1920. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, New York, x + 470 pp. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 98]

Additional references

• Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. IV. Staphylinine group (part 1) Euaesthetinae, Leptotyphlinae, Megalopsidiinae, Oxyporinae, Pseudopsinae, Solieriinae, Steninae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (265): 1807–1220.
• Leschen, R.A.B.; Newton, A.F. 2003: Larval description, adult feeding behavior, and phylogenetic placement of Megalopinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Coleopterists bulletin, 57: 469–493. DOI: 10.1649/586 JSTOR