Cyrtoquediini Brunke & Solodovnikov, 2016

Brunke, Adam J., 2021, New relictual genera in Cyrtoquediini and Indoquediini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), ZooKeys 1076, pp. 109-124 : 109

Cyrtoquediini Brunke & Solodovnikov, 2016

Diagnosis.

Cyrtoquediini (as recently redefined by Brunke et al. (2021)) can be recognized among other Staphylininae based on the following combination of characters: microsculpture on disc of head and pronotum absent; obvious presence of both posterior frontal and basal punctures ( Brunke et al., 2019: fig. 1); profemora with apical row of lateroventral spines (near joint with protibia) ( Brunke et al. 2021: fig. 8B); protibia without subapical notch ( Brunke et al. 2021: fig. 8C); metatarsomeres 1-4 flattened and trapezoidal, not elongate and cylindrical. Most genera in Cyrtoquediini can also be recognized by the unique row of coarse, impressed setose punctures on the elytral epipleuron ( Brunke et al. 2016: fig. 4).