Taxonomy of ' Euconnus complex'. Part XVIII. Status of subgenera Palaeoconnus Franz and Heterotetramelus Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-26
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Subgenus
Australosciacharoides
subgen. n.
Type
species:
Horaeomorphus maipotonensis
Franz, 1975
(here designated).
Diagnosis.
Pronotum with a distinct transverse groove, lacking pits; hypostomal ridges reaching posterior tentorial pits; hypomeral ridges incomplete, largely obliterated, with only short anterior portions marked; anterolateral portions of prosternum laterally slightly overlapping hypomera; mesoventrite in front of mesocoxae with sharply demarcated median longitudinal carina, which is posteriorly gradually fused with precoxal region of mesoventrite, lacking posterior tip; each mesanepisternum with a brush of dense and long setae directed anterad and visible in dorsal view.
Etymology.
Combination of the continent name and the former genus
Sciacharoides
. Gender masculine.
Composition & distribution.
Heterotetramelus
(
Australosciacharoides
)
comprises only
H. maipotonensis
(
Franz, 1975
)
comb. n.
(ex
Sciacharoides
) known to occur in
Australia
.