Bellatheta Roubal, 1928

Lee, Seung-Gyu & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2021, Korean Species of Bellatheta Roubal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with Two New Combinations and a New Synonym, The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (2), pp. 349-354 : 350

Genus Bellatheta Roubal, 1928

Bellatheta Roubal 1928: 27 (type species: Atheta fatrica Roubal, 1928 ).

Emmelostiba Pace 1982: 446 (type species: Emmelostiba besucheti Pace, 1982 ).

Pseudousipalia Lohse 1990 in Lohse et al. 1990: 149 (type species: Pseudousipalia microptera Lohse, 1990 ).

Diagnosis. Members of Bellatheta can be distin- guished from other athetine genera by the combination of the following characters: body parallel-sided; eye small to moderate in size; infraorbital carina incomplete or absent; antennomere 2 longer than 3; labium with ligula divided into 2 lobes at base to half; pronotum less than 1.2 times as wide as long, distinctly wider than head; hypomeron fully visible in lateral aspect; mesocoxal cavities contiguous; mesoventral process pointed at apex; abdominal tergite II with 1 macroseta on each side of midline, III with anterior macrosetae; medi- an lobe of aedeagus elongate, apical process bifid in ventral aspect ( Lohse et al. 1990; Pace 1982; Vogel 2007).

Distribution. Palearctic, Oriental ( Vietnam), and Nearctic (Alaska and Yukon) regions.