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Issue: Vol. 5424 No. 1: 12 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.1.6
Page range: 116-126
Abstract views: 73
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Review of the rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Pliocene of Willershausen, Germany

Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen 2100; Denmark
Geoscience Museum; Georg August University; Goldschmidtstraße 3; 37077 Göttingen; Germany
Department of Animal Evolution and Biodiversity; Georg August University; Untere Karspüle 2; 37073 Göttingen; Germany
Coleoptera palaeoentomology Neogene Cenozoic fossil Insecta

Abstract

The rove beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (excluding the subfamily Silphinae) of the Pliocene of Willershausen (Lower Saxony, North Germany) is reviewed based on the type and other material of previously described or reported taxa, as well as two new specimens. Six subfamilies are represented in the deposit, with two subfamilial assignments considered tentative: Aleocharinae?, Micropeplinae, Oxytelinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae? and Tachyporinae. †Pliosyntomium Korge, 1967 syn. nov. is placed as a junior synonym of Paederus Fabricius, 1775. The following new combination is established: †Paederus schmidti (Korge, 1967) comb. nov. All rove beetle fossils from Willershausen housed in the Collections of the Geoscience Museum, University of Göttingen.

 

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