Descriptions of three new species of the Termitophilous tribe Termitopaediini in China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Author
Song, Xiao-Bin
Author
Li, Li-Zhen
text
ZooKeys
2014
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.424.7670
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.424.7670
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae
Dioxeuta Sharp
Dioxeuta
Sharp, 1899: 205 (original description, type species:
Dioxeuta microps
Sharp, 1899);
Blackwelder 1952
: 128 (discussion of type species);
Seevers 1957
: 217 (redescription, placed in tribe
Termitopaediini
);
Kistner 1968
: 169 (redescription, key to species);
Kistner 2001
: 17 (redescription; key to species).
Jacobsonella
Silvestri, 1911: 59 (original description, type species:
Jacobsonella termitobia
Silvestri, 1911);
Blackwelder 1952
: 206 (discussion of type species);
Seevers 1957
: 217 (synonymized with
Dioxeuta
).
Remarks.
The genus is similar to
Neodioxeuta
Seevers and
Termitopulex
Fauvel by the shape of head and thorax. It can be easily separated from
Neodioxeuta
by the abdomen only slightly physogastric and the abdominal segment II represented by a reduced tergite only. It can be distinguished from
Termitopulex
by the outer paratergites about twice the width of the inner paratergites (
Kistner 1968
,
2001
).