Rybinskiella Reitter, 1906

Wang, Cheng-Bin & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2016, Sinocatops gen. nov., an apterous genus of Cholevini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae) from China, with emphasis on differences with allied Rybinskiella Reitter, 1906, Zootaxa 4085 (3), pp. 393-415 : 407

Genus Rybinskiella Reitter, 1906

Reitter, 1906: 243 (species included: magnifica ); Reitter, 1907: 333 (complementary descriptions); Jeannel, 1936: 290 (characters; key to species); Szymczakowski, 1956: 10 (status change); Frank, 1988: 259 (revision; status change); Perreau, 2000: 146 (world catalog; 11 species); Lafer et al., 2001: 457 (brief review of subgenera; distributional considerations); Perreau, 2004: 141 (Palaearctic catalog; distribution); Perreau, 2015: 191 (Palaearctic catalog; distribution).

Type species: Choleva magnifica Rybiński, 1902a , by monotypy.

Note: This genus includes 12 species and it can be divided into 3 subgenera: Rybinskiella s. str. (1 sp.), Eurybinskiella Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1970 (3 spp.) and Sintania Pic, 1908 (8 spp.). Only one species of this genus, R. (Sintania) bodoana Reitter, 1913 , is recorded from China.