Mesoleptochir Jeannel, 1959a : 68

Hlaváč, Peter, 2016, Mataranka bilyi, a new peculiar genus and species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Australia, Zootaxa 4072 (1), pp. 126-134 : 131

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:530970CE-DE85-43ED-91A8-5E9208BEA42D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6088175

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/233387B5-060C-FFCA-FF7C-DE22FD1CDC99

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Plazi

scientific name

Mesoleptochir Jeannel, 1959a : 68
status

 

Mesoleptochir Jeannel, 1959a: 68 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Length 1.8−2.2 mm, head long, 1.5 times as long as wide, as long as pronotum, eyes large, slightly prominent, rostrum slightly rounded with short and sharp median projection, pronotum slightly longer than wide and clearly shorter than elytra, with or without foveae, lacking median sulcus, elytra shorter, lacking basal foveae, with fine sutural stria, with trichomes at rounded posterior corners, midlegs strongly modified in males, abdomen long, more than 1.75 times as long as elytra, transverse basal impression narrow, first paratergite with trichome. Antennae with scape miniscule, pedicel small, cylindrical, antennomeres III −V elongate, much longer than wide, subequal, terminal antennomere about 1.5 times as long as V, strongly expanded toward apex, at apex truncate.

Species included. Mesoleptochir saegeri Jeannel, 1959 ; M. rougemonti Besuchet, 1974 .

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Loc

Mesoleptochir Jeannel, 1959a : 68

Hlaváč, Peter 2016
2016
Loc

Mesoleptochir

Jeannel 1959: 68
1959
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