Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4450 No. 2: 24 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.9
Page range: 293–296
Abstract views: 95
PDF downloaded: 4

Seychellister mornicus, a new genus and species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Seychelles

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Pselaphinae

Abstract

Seychellister mornicus, gen. and sp. nov. is described based on three specimens collected by sifting of leaf-litter in Mahé, Seychelles. The genus is tentatively placed in the subtribe Clavigerodina (Pselaphinae: Clavigeritae: Clavigerini).

 

References

  1. Baňař, P. & Hlaváč, P. (2014) The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. III. Additional description of Andasibe sahondrae Hlaváč & Baňař, 2012 based on males. Zootaxa, 3861 (2), 170–176.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.2.4

    Célis, M.-J. (1974) Un Clavigérine remarquable de l'Ile de la Réunion (Coleoptera Pselaphidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 88, 771–774.

    Chandler, D.S. (2001) Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetles of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Memoirs on Entomology International, 15, 1–560.

    Hlaváč, P. (2016) Mataranka bilyi, a new peculiar genus and species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Australia. Zootaxa, 4072 (1), 126–134.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4072.1.6

    Hlaváč, P. & Baňař, P. (2012) The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. I. Andasibe sahondrae, a new, peculiar genus and species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Zootaxa, 3394, 59–63.

    Hlaváč, P. & Baňař, P. (2014) A review of the Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Socotra Island. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54 (supplementum), 121–132.

    Hlaváč, P. & Baňař, P. (2016) The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. V. Description of Squamiger gen. nov. from Central Madagascar. Zootaxa, 4127 (2), 393–400.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.11

    Hlaváč, P. & Nakládal, O. (2016a) The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. IV. Contribution to the subtribes Hoplitoxenina and Dimerometopina with description of a new species of Hadrophorus Fairmaire, 1898. Zootaxa, 4105 (3), 274–284.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4105.3.4

    Hlaváč, P. & Nakládal, O. (2016b) The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Madagascar. VI. Description of Ambohitantella banari gen. et sp. n. with notes on Nearticerodes Jeannel, 1954 and Triceratomerus Jeannel, 1960. Zootaxa, 4189 (1), 183–188.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4189.1.11