On the Himalayan Pselaphini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Löbl, Ivan
Muséum d’histoire naturelle Case postale 6 CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
ivan.lobl@bluewin.ch
Author
Kodada, Ján
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University Ilkovičova 6, MlynskÁ dolina B- 1 SK- 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
jan.kodada@uniba.sk
text
2021
Naturkundemuseum
Erfurt
Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VII
349
368
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5793818
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Key to
Pselaphini
genera known from the Indian subcontinent
1 Maxillary palpomeres with lateral spines......................... .................................................
Mentraphus
Sharp, 1883
- Maxillary palpomeres lacking spines............................. 2
2 Maxillary palpomere IV short, robust, lacking peduncle. .....................................................
Tyraphus
Sharp, 1883
- Maxillary palpomere IV long, with peduncle ................ 3
3 Pronotum lacking antebasal sulcus ................................ 4
- Pronotum with antebasal sulcus ..................................... 6
4 Maxillary palpomere IV with apical notch bearing sensory area ...................................
Pselaphogenius
Reitter, 1910
- Maxillary palpi lacking obvious apical notch and sensory area ................................................................................. 5
5 Pronotum with antebasal foveae, elytra with basal foveae. Maxillary palpomere IV not or indistinctly tuberculate... .........................................................
Nepallaphus
n. gen.
- Pronotum and elytra lacking foveae. Maxillary palpomere IV distinctly tuberculate ............
Pselaphus
Herbst, 1791
6 Pronotum with mesal impression ..................................... ........................................
Nabepselaphus
Nomura, 2002
- Pronotum not impressed mesally ................................... 7
7 Pronotum with dense, longitudinal striae or sulci covering lateral and dorsal surface of disc anterior antebasal sulcus. .........................................................
Himallaphus
n. gen.
- Pronotum without longitudinal striae or sulci ................ 8
8 Sensory area of maxillary palpomere IV sharply defined .............................................
Pselaphaulax
Reitter, 1909
- Sensory area of maxillary palpomere IV in shallow, not clearly defined impression................................................ .....................................
Pselaphotrichus
Besuchet, 1986