Reclassification of the North Temperate Taxa Associated with Staphylinus Sensu Lato, Including Comments on Relevant Subtribes of Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Author SMETANA, ALEŠ Author DAVIES, ANTHONY text American Museum Novitates 2000 2000-02-02 3287 1 1 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282000%29287%3C0001%3AROTNTT%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0082(2000)287<0001:ROTNTT>2.0.CO;2 0003-0082 Emus Leach, 1819 TYPE SPECIES : Staphylinus hirtus Linne´, 1758 . COMMENTS: Species of this genus are quite distinctive by the long, matted, black, golden­yellow, and whitish­gray pubescence of the body, and by the characters used in the key to genera. Further character states include: mandible with small rectangular tooth basad of large middle tooth; mandibular prostheca long, parallel­sided, with ciliae only near apex; postmandibular ridge rudimentary; palpifer with several apical and many discal, coarse setae; mentum with arcuate carina between basal angles, separating ellipsoidal membranous basal portion from small anterolateral sclerotized portions, which are deflected anterolaterad and bear a cluster of setae; superior and inferior lines of pronotal hypomeron connected just behind posterolateral angle of prosternum; deflected portion of pronotal disc visible in ventral view from near posterior margin of proepimeron, which is well developed and membranous; sternacostal ridge bisinuate, transverse, roughly parallel to anterior prosternal margin; anterior projection of metasternum very broad, margins obsolete.