Microsaurus, Dejean, 1833

Brunke, Adam James, 2023, Review of Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) described from the 1934 expedition by R. Malaise to Myanmar, European Journal of Taxonomy 864, pp. 117-145 : 126

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.864.2093

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D47B6B04-B2AD-4FDD-B7C4-B71CA6A5BB84

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7872288

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C38C875-FFBE-5B5F-FF67-FD86E707FC5B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Microsaurus
status

 

Microsaurus lineage, sensu Brunke et al. (2021)

Members of this large, monophyletic group can be recognized by the combination of: genal puncture present; basal puncture doubled; elytra with evenly distributed punctures or with at least asetose punctures on disc among serial rows of setose punctures. This lineage currently consists of Anthosaurus Smetana, 2015 , Pseudorientis Watanabe, 1970 , Korgella Özdikmen, 2005 , Quedius (Velleius) (Fabricius, 1787) and the large polyphyletic subgenus Quedius (Microsaurus) Stephens, 1829 , inside which all the aforementioned taxa are nested. To avoid treating all members of the Microsaurus lineage as a single, morphologically heterogeneous genus, and to avoid a major priority issue (Velleius Leach, 1819 has priority over Microsaurus Dejean, 1833 ), the major subclades of this lineage should be ranked as genera, pending comprehensive morphological study ( Brunke et al. 2021). One of these taxa is described below.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Staphylininae

Tribe

Quediini

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