Thyreocephalus nairobiensis

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: Staphylininae
Tribus: Xantholinini
Genus: Thyreocephalus
Species: Thyreocephalus nairobiensis

Name

Thyreocephalus nairobiensis (Fauvel, 1907: 34)

• Type locality: KENYA: Nairobi, Wa Kikuyu et Masai.
• Holotype: IRSN, ♀.

Synonymy

• Xantholinus nairobiensis Fauvel, 1907: 34 [original combination]; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 306; Herman, 2001: 3814
  • Thyreocephalus nairobiensis — Janak & Bordoni, 2015: 39
• Eulissus turneri Bernhauer, 1937: 299; Herman, 2001: 3629; Janak & Bordoni, 2015: 39 [new synonym in Janak & Bordoni, 2015: 39]

References

Primary references

• Fauvel, A. 1907. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans l’Afrique Orientale. Staphylinidae. Revue d’Entomologie 26: 10–70. BHL [original description: p. 34]
• Janák, J. & Bordoni, A. 2015. Revision of the genus Thyreocephalus and description of Afrus gen. nov. of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zootaxa 4038(1): 1–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4038.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-825-3 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-826-0 (Online edition) Reference page.  [comb. nov., syn. nov., material, redescription, distribution: p. 39, figs. 82–86, 92–96]

Additional references

• Bordoni, A. 2018. Revision of the Afrotropical Xantholinini (Coleoptera Staphylinidae). Biodiversity journal 2016, 7(4): 389–894. PDF. Reference page.  [material, description, distribution: p. 546, figs. 1686–1689]
• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. VI. Staphylinine group (Part 3). Staphylininae: Staphylinini (Quediina, Staphylinina, Tanygnathinina, Xanthopygina), Xantholinini. Staphylinidae incertae sedis. Fossils, Protactinae†. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 3021–3840. hdl: 2246/5831 Reference page.  [catalog: p. 3814]