First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Natural Resources Canada, Québec, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
Author
Savard, Karine
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec ,, Canada
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-09-28
22
22
45
79
journal article
10.3897/zookeys.22.153
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1313–2970
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Schistoglossa
Kraatz, 1856
Schistoglossa
Kraatz, 1856: 344
; Benick and
Lohse 1974: 81
;
Seevers 1978: 111
;
Moore and Legner 1975: 480
,
Ashe 2001
;
Smetana 2004: 416
.
Type
species:
Homalota viduata
Erichson, 1837
.
Diagnosis
.
Schistoglossa
may be distinguished from other athetines by the following combination of characters: body subparallel (Figs 1–8); head slightly narrower or nearly as broad as pronotum (Figs 1–8); eyes small, approximately two to three times shorter than the postocular region of head, tempora partially feebly carinate at base of head or carinae virtually obsolete; antennae approximately reaching posterior margin of elytra, articles 5–10 slightly transverse or slightly elongate (Figs 1–8);