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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-10-23
Page range: 445–450
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

Notes on the systematic placement of Sciacharis (Anthicimimus(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Scydmaeninae

Abstract

The entangled history of Sciacharis Broun, 1983, a genus in which nearly 240 species were placed by Herbert Franz who has apparently never studied its type species, was recently summarized by Jałoszyński (2014a, b). A synonymy of Chatchamaenus Franz with Sciacharis s. str. was demonstrated, and Maorinus Franz, 1980 was placed as a subgenus of Sciacharis (Jałoszyński 2014a). Still, the systematics of Sciacharis, a genus currently comprising nearly 300 species and distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, is far from clarity.