Pseudophanias Raffray, 1890

Inoue, Shota, Nomura, Shuhei & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2020, Three new species of Pseudophanias Raffray from Japan and Taiwan Island, and synonymy of Chandleriella Hlavac with Pseudophanias (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), ZooKeys 987, pp. 135-156 : 135

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.987.53648
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:861F9C14-6E6D-4222-A41F-FC56F978C2E8
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DEA6E159-D8DE-521D-AB28-A51F627A798F
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Pseudophanias Raffray, 1890
status

Treatment

Genus Pseudophanias Raffray, 1890

Pseudophanias Raffray, 1890a: 161. Type species: Pseudophanias malaianus Raffray, 1890b: 214 (by subsequent monotypy).

Chandleriella Hlaváč, 2000: 91, syn. nov. Type species: Lasinus termitophilus Bryant, 1915: 300 (by original monotypy).

Revised diagnosis.

Members of the genus Pseudophanias can be distinguished from all other genera of the Tmesiphorini by a combination of the following characteristics: body form strongly stout to markedly elongate; male antennae usually with modified antennomeres 3-10, or 11 alone; greatly reduced maxillary palpi with fusiform palpomere 4; distinct paratergites on abdomen; tergite IV longest to subequal in size to tergite V; aedeagus usually tuberculate in shape, rarely bulbous.

Distribution.

Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan, Nepal.