Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895

Yang, Zhuo & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2012, Review of Chinese species of the genus Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) with description of two species new to science, Zootaxa 3191, pp. 1-20 : 2

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Genus Ontholestes Ganglbauer, 1895 View in CoL

Ganglbauer, 1895: 417; Lucas, 1920: 459; Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 393; Cameron, 1932: 209; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1405; Kirshenblat, 1936; Coiffait, 1974: 368; Shibata, 1984: 96; Smetana and Davies, 2000: 19, 22, 38; Herman, 2001: 3421; Smetana, 2004: 679.

Type species. Staphylinus murinus Linné , fixed by subsequent designation by Lucas, 1920: 459.

Synonyms. Trichoderma Stephens, 1833: 96 (species included: nebulosa, hybrida, murina, pubescens;). Type species. Staphylinus murinus Linné , fixed by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1838: 15.

Diagnosis. The species of this genus share the following charateristics: anterior angles of pronotum angulately extended anteriorly, marginal line of pronotal hypomeron narrowly rounded at prosternal margin, mesoventrite with complete, medial longitudinal carina, and mentum with long anterolateral seta near lateral margin, lateral seta minute to absent.

Further character states observed in the genus include: outer segments of antenna variably asymmetrical; maxillary and labial palpus both with last segment asetose, fusiform; mandibles each with dorsolateral ridge distinct, removed from mandibular margin, basally bordered by deep, broad depression; mandibular prostheca ciliate along entire length, with long, irregular, dense basal ciliae gradually shortening apicad; apical segments of both maxillary and labial palpus distinctly elongate, fusiform, without setae; postmandibular ridge present; postgenal ridge arched towards base of gula; superior line of pronotal hypomeron rather abruptly deflexed ventrad at about middle of pronotum length; postcoxal process of hypomeron long, subtriangular; prosternum highly prominent, sloping abruptly to anterior margin, with strong, convex carina starting between macrosetae; series of long setae on mesoventrite arranged in subtransverse row on each side of median carina; intercoxal process of mesoventrite angulate to broadly truncate apically; metaventrite oblique, highly convex between coxae, anterior projection with acutely converging margins; dorsal apicolateral lobe of metacoxa without apparent spines (after Smetana & Davies 2000).

References

Bernhauer, M., and K. Schubert. (1914) Staphylinidae IV. In: Junk, W & Schenkling S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus, 5. Junk, Berlin, pp. 289 - 408.

Cameron, M. (1932) The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Vol. 3. Taylor and Francis, London, 443 pp.

Coiffait, H. (1974) Coleopteres staphylinides de la region palearctique occidentale II. Sous famille Staphilininae, Tribus Philonthini et Staphylinini. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie Supplement, 4, 1 - 593.

Ganglbauer, L. (1895) Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa. Die Kafer der osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie, Deutschlands, der Schweiz, sowie des franzosischen und italienischen Alpengebietes. 2. Familienreihe Staphylinoidea. Theil I. Staphylinidae, Pselaphidae, Carl Gerold's Sohn. Wien, 881 pp.

Herman, L. H. (2001) Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Colepptera) 1758 to the End of the Second Millennium. VI. Staphylinine Group (Part 3). Staphylinini (Quediina, Staphylinina, Tanygnathinina, Xanthopygina), Xanthplinini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 265, i - vi, 3308 - 3558.

Kirshenblat, J. (1936) Obzor Palearkticheskikh vidov roda Ontholestes Ganglb. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 3, 551 - 566.

Lucas, R. (1920) Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (famil., trib., subtr., sect. incl.). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 84, 1 - 696.

Scheerpeltz, O. (1933) Staphylinidae VII. In S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus, Junk. Berlin, 6, 989 - 1500.

Shibata, Y. (1984) Provisional check list of the family Staphylinidae of Japan. IV. (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annual Bulletin of the Nichidai Sanko, 22, 79 - 141.

Smetana, A. & Davies. A. (2000) Reclassification of the north temperate taxa associated with Staphylinus sensu lato, including comments on relevant subtribes of Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). American Museum Novitates, 3287, 1 - 88.

Smetana, A. (2004) Staphylininae, p. 624 - 698. - In Lobl, I. and Smetana, A. (eds.): Catalog of Palearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 671 - 687.

Stephens, J. F. (1833) The nomenclature of British insects; together with their synonymies: being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and of those discovered subsequently to its publication; forming a guide to their classification, & c. & c. Second edition. Iv. Baldwin and Cradock. London, + 134 pp.

Westwood, J. O. (1838) An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London, 1, xii + 1 - 462.