Tribasodites Jeannel, 1960

Inoue, Shota & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2020, A new termitophilous species of Tribasodites Jeannel from Taiwan and southern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), Zootaxa 4786 (3), pp. 417-424 : 418

Tribasodites Jeannel, 1960

Tribasodites Jeannel, 1960: 411 . Type species: Tribasodites antennalis Jeannel, 1960: 412 (original designation).

Diagnosis. See detailed diagnosis in Yin et al. (2015). Head with median longitudinal carinae on vertex, ocular mandibular carinae distinct; pronotum with median and lateral longitudinal sulci, lateral sulci usually carinae at inner margins, with median antebasal impression and lateral antebasal foveae separated by antebasal spines; lateral spines often present on lateral margins; elytra each with three basal foveae; abdomen with tergite IV longer than the next.

Members of this genus are distinguished from the allied genus Tribasodes Jeannel, 1958 by the secondary sexual character occur on the head or antennomeres VIII–XI, and the abdominal tergite IV lacking basal depression ( Zhao et al. 2010b; Yin et al. 2015).