A revision of the Nearctic species of Brachygluta Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Chandler, Donald S.
Author
Sabella, Giorgio
Author
Bückle, Christoph
text
Zootaxa
2015
3928
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1
91
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3928.1.1
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1175-5326
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Brachygluta
(
Nisa
)
—the
cavicornis
species-group
Members of this subgenus have: median mesosternal fovea lacking, body distinctly punctate, median antebasal pronotal fovea small, about half width of lateral foveae; males with antennomeres of antennal club modified, abdominal tergites not modified. This group contains
B. cavicornis
(Brendel)
,
B. curvicera
(Motschulsky)
,
B. luniger
(LeConte)
, and
B. miccosukee
Bückle
sp. n.
All are species of the Atlantic coastal marsh areas from New Brunswick to Florida, with one species also found along the Caribbean coast of Florida.
Bowman (1934)
treated this group as his Group III.