Hydrosmecta Thomson 1858

Lee, Seung-Gyu & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2024, Korean species of Hydrosmecta Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5399 (3), pp. 265-274 : 266

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10516866

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hydrosmecta Thomson 1858
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Genus Hydrosmecta Thomson 1858 View in CoL

Hydrosmecta Thomson 1858: 33 View in CoL (Type species: Homalota longula Heer, 1839 View in CoL ).

Hydrosmectina Ganglbauer 1895: 145 (Type species: Homalota subtilissima Kraatz, 1854 View in CoL ).

Thinoecia Mulsant & Rey 1873: 184 View in CoL (Type species: Thinoecia libitina Mulsant & Rey, 1873 View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Members of the genus Hydrosmecta can be distinguished from other athetine genera by the combination of the following characters: body very small and slender, parallel-sided and flattened dorso-ventrally; head about as large as or larger than pronotum; eye shorter than temple; antenna long and slender, reaching about the middle of elytra; antennomere 3 shorter than 2; mandible long and slender, right one with distinct internal tooth; prementum without pseudopore or with a few pseudopores in median region; elytron relatively long, distinctly longer than pronotum; abdominal tergites II–III without anterior macroseta, tergite VII distinctly longer than VI ( Benick & Lohse 1974; Yosii & Sawada 1976; Ashe 2001).

Distribution. Worldwide (except Australia).

Remarks. All examined specimens of South Korean species were collected near streams and rivers.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Loc

Hydrosmecta Thomson 1858

Lee, Seung-Gyu & Ahn, Kee-Jeong 2024
2024
Loc

Hydrosmectina

Ganglbauer, L. 1895: 145
1895
Loc

Thinoecia

Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1873: 184
1873
Loc

Hydrosmecta

Thomson, C. G. 1858: 33
1858
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