Termitopulex
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Name
Termitopulex Fauvel – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Termitopulex Fauvel, 1899: 37 (original description, type species: Termitopulex grandicornis Fauvel, 1899); Blackwelder 1952[1]: 379 (discussion of genotype); Seevers 1957[2]: 222; (placed in tribe Termitopaediini); Kistner 1968[3]: 153 (redescription; key to species).
- Silvestrinus Bernhauer, 1932: 14 (original description, type species: Silvestrinus erythraeanus Bernhauer, 1932); Blackwelder 1952[1]: 352 (discussion of the type species); Seevers 1957[2]: 222 (synonymized with Termitopulex).
Remarks
The genus is similar to Polyteinia Bernhauer and Paratermitopulex Kistner through the overall shape. It can be easily separated from Polyteinia by the absence of easily visible exit pores from abdominal segment VII and the different shape of paramere. It can be distinguished from Paratermitopulex by the rounded lateral edges of the pronotum. Termitopulex is also related to Dioxeuta from which it can be distinguished the less physogastric abdomen and the paratergites approximately equal in width (Kistner 2001[4]).
Taxon Treatment
- Song, X; Li, L; 2014: Descriptions of three new species of the Termitophilous tribe Termitopaediini in China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) ZooKeys, 424: 91-100. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Blackwelder R (1952) The generic names of the beetle family Staphylinidae with an essay on genotypy. Smithsonian Institution United State National Museum Bulletin 200: iv + 483 pp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Seevers C (1957) A monograph on the termitophilous Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). Fieldiana: Zoology 40: 1–334.
- ↑ Kistner D (1968) A taxonomic revision of the termitophilous tribe Termitopaediini, with notes on behavior, systematic, and post-imaginal growth. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 6(3): 142–196.
- ↑ Kistner D (2001) Cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the termitophilous tribe Termitopaediini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with remarks on their evolution and the behavior of some species. Sociobiology 38(1–2): 1–278.
