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The
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of this species, which is the only specimen mentioned by
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, was not found in the Australian Museum in Sydney (D. Smith, email to the author dated
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), or in any other Australian institutional collection.
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was placed by
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in a genus which he characterized as having the terminal maxillary palpomere globular, in contrast to conical in his
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(which was a misidentified stenichnine genus
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<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0527D8B39CFE8EE45B" box="[227,337,496,521]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
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). This suggests that all species of Kings
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<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052400B383FC3FE45B" box="[827,992,495,521]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Heterognathus</emphasis>
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belong in
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, which has the terminal maxillary palpomere not elongate conical, as in Stenichnini, but dome-shaped. However, King placed in the same genus
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, which is clearly an
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and has a conical maxillary palpomere 4. The description of
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is extremely short and includes only the following line: “
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523ACB030FADEE4CB" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">
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, thorace transverse fossulato; elytris castaneis humeris plicatis, plicatura longitudinali ad medium extensa
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”. The phrase “
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05279FB0CFFE3DE4EF" box="[164,482,675,701]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">thorace transverse fossulato</emphasis>
” helps excluding this species from
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. Among Australian (and world) species of
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, the pronotum can bear a variable number of antebasal pits or can lack any pits. In nearly all species there is an extremely fine transverse wrinkle or a marginal basal carina, but it is barely discernible under stereomicroscopes and it usually requires SEM to be visible. It is highly doubtful that King in 1864, long before stereomicroscopes became invented and made available for scientists (
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), was able to notice this carina and even more doubtful that in this case he would describe the pronotum as “
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”, which implies a transverse impression, a fossa or sulcus. For species of the true
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bearing antebasal pronotal pits, King uses unambiguous phrases “
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” and “
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” (for
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and
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, respectively;
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: 98). King clearly made a distinction between antebasal pits (
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052372B1AFFAD3E58F" box="[1097,1292,963,989]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">thorace foveolato</emphasis>
) and a transverse groove or impression (
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0526EDB18BFCCCE253" box="[470,787,999,1025]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">thorace transverse fossulato</emphasis>
). The misplaced
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<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0524E8B18BFB32E253" box="[979,1261,999,1025]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Heterognathus armitagei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which belongs in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05278EB660FEFCE277" box="[181,291,1036,1061]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05278EB660FEFCE277" box="[181,291,1036,1061]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and has a transverse antebasal pronotal groove, was described in a similar way as
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0523F7B660FA83E277" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[1228,1372,1035,1061]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macleayii">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523F7B660FA83E277" box="[1228,1372,1035,1061]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">H. macleayii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with “
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05279FB643FDC9E21B" box="[164,534,1071,1097]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">thorace fossula transversa basali</emphasis>
”. As no Australian (or any other) species of
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05233EB643FB50E21B" baseAuthorityName="Franz" baseAuthorityYear="1975" box="[1029,1167,1071,1097]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05233EB643FB50E21B" box="[1029,1167,1071,1097]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a transverse
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052276B643FA43E21B" box="[1357,1436,1071,1097]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">fossula</emphasis>
on the pronotum,
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05265AB638FE2EE23F" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[353,497,1107,1133]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macleayii">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05265AB638FE2EE23F" box="[353,497,1107,1133]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">H. macleayii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
must belong in Stenichnini. The maxillary palpomeres in beetles measuring below
<quantity id="716910A4FFB34A0527ACB61BFF06E2C0" box="[151,217,1143,1170]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" unit="mm" value="2.0">2 mm</quantity>
are difficult to examine, so errors in a tribal and generic placement in the 19th century are not unusual. The easier structure to examine, and used by
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A05256CB6F7FD3FE2E7" author="King, R. L." box="[599,736,1179,1205]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="91 - 99" refId="ref51270" refString="King, R. L. (1864) On the Scydmaenides of New South Wales. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 1, 91 - 99, pls. 6 - 7." type="journal article" year="1864">King (1864)</bibRefCitation>
in his key to genera, is the distance between the metacoxae. He divides Australian Scydmaeninae genera into two groups: (1) those with “posterior legs contiguous”, and (2) those with “posterior legs distant”. This division is correct in the case of species placed both in the group 1 (
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052215B68FFEB9E373" authority="King, 1864" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Phagonophana" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052215B68FFF02E373" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Phagonophana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0527DFB76BFEB9E373" author="King, R. L." box="[228,358,1287,1313]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="91 - 99" refId="ref51270" refString="King, R. L. (1864) On the Scydmaenides of New South Wales. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 1, 91 - 99, pls. 6 - 7." type="journal article" year="1864">King, 1864</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, which includes species currently classified in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052448B764FB44E370" authority="Thomson, 1859" authorityName="Thomson" authorityYear="1859" box="[883,1179,1287,1314]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052448B764FC3EE373" box="[883,993,1288,1313]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0524D3B76BFB44E370" author="Thomson, C. G." box="[1000,1179,1287,1314]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" refId="ref52211" refString="Thomson, C. G. (1859) Skandinaviens Coleoptera, synoptiskt bearbetade. Vol. 1. Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, 290 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 138677" type="book" year="1859">Thomson, 1859</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05239DB76BFE8AE317" authority="L. W. Schaufuss, 1889" authorityName="L. W. Schaufuss" authorityYear="1889" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05239DB76BFA81E373" box="[1190,1374,1287,1313]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Horaeomorphus</emphasis>
L.W.
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0527ACB747FE8AE317" author="Schaufuss, L. W." box="[151,341,1323,1349]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 42" refId="ref51865" refString="Schaufuss, L. W. (1889) Neue Scydmaeniden im Museum Ludwig Salvator. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 33, 1 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18890330103" type="journal article" year="1889">Schaufuss, 1889</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052659B747FDABE317" authority="Broun, 1893" authorityName="Broun" authorityYear="1893" box="[354,628,1323,1350]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Sciacharis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052659B747FE07E317" box="[354,472,1323,1349]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Sciacharis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0526D8B740FDABE317" author="Broun, T." box="[483,628,1323,1350]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="975 - 1504" refId="ref49578" refString="Broun, T. (1893) Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Parts V., VI. &amp; VII. New Zealand Institute, Wellington, xvii + pp. 975 - 1504." type="book chapter" year="1893">Broun, 1893</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0525B9B747FBD0E317" authority="Jaloszynski, 2014 b" authorityName="Jaloszynski" authorityYear="2014" box="[642,1039,1323,1349]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenozila" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0525B9B747FCF5E317" box="[642,810,1323,1349]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenozila</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A05240FB747FBD0E317" author="Jaloszynski, P." box="[820,1039,1323,1349]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 76" refId="ref50749" refString="Jaloszynski, P. (2014 b) &quot; The curse of Horaeomorphus &quot;: Taxonomy of misplaced Australian Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa, 3828 (5), 1 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3884.5.2" type="journal article" year="2014">Jałoszyński, 2014b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052374B747FA48E314" authority="Motschulsky, 1851" authorityName="Motschulsky" authorityYear="1851" box="[1103,1431,1323,1350]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Syndicus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052374B747FB6CE317" box="[1103,1203,1323,1349]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Syndicus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A052386B747FA48E314" author="Motschulsky, V." box="[1213,1431,1323,1350]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="479 - 511" refId="ref51507" refString="Motschulsky, V. (1851) Enumeration des nouvelles especes de Coleopteres. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 24 (4), 479 - 511." type="journal article" year="1851">Motschulsky, 1851</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; and
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0527FCB723FE37E33B" authority="King, 1864" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[199,488,1359,1385]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenilla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0527FCB723FE81E33B" box="[199,350,1359,1385]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenilla</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A05265DB723FE37E33B" author="King, R. L." box="[358,488,1359,1385]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="91 - 99" refId="ref51270" refString="King, R. L. (1864) On the Scydmaenides of New South Wales. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales, 1, 91 - 99, pls. 6 - 7." type="journal article" year="1864">King, 1864</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
), and the group 2 (
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052585B723FC0EE33B" authority="sensu King" authorityName="King" box="[702,977,1359,1386]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052585B723FC97E33B" box="[702,840,1359,1385]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenus</emphasis>
sensu King
</taxonomicName>
, which includes species currently placed in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05278FB718FEFDE3DF" box="[180,290,1396,1421]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05278FB718FEFDE3DF" box="[180,290,1396,1421]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052609B71FFDA4E3DC" authority="Stephens, 1835" authorityName="Stephens" authorityYear="1835" box="[306,635,1395,1422]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Megaladerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052609B71FFE19E3DF" box="[306,454,1395,1421]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Megaladerus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0526F6B71FFDA4E3DC" author="Stephens, J. F." box="[461,635,1395,1422]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" refId="ref52148" refString="Stephens, J. F. (1835) Illustrations of British entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects, containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. Mandibulata. Baldwin &amp; Cradock, London, 79 pp." type="book" year="1835">Stephens, 1835</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, which is a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0524EDB71FFAB2E3DF" authority="Muller &amp; Kunze, 1822" authorityName="Muller &amp; Kunze" authorityYear="1822" box="[982,1389,1395,1422]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cephennium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0524EDB71FFBBBE3DF" box="[982,1124,1395,1421]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Cephennium</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A052350B71FFAB2E3DF" author="Muller, P. W. I. &amp; Kunze, G." box="[1131,1389,1395,1422]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="175 - 204" refId="ref51540" refString="Muller, P. W. I. &amp; Kunze, G. (1822) Monographie der Ameisenkafer (Scydmaenus Latreille). Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, 1, 175 - 204, pl. 5." type="journal article" year="1822">Müller &amp; Kunze, 1822</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, but the only Australian species described by King is currently in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052462B7FBFB68E3E3" authority="Reitter, 1907" authorityName="Reitter" authorityYear="1907" box="[857,1207,1431,1457]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cephennomicrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052462B7FBFBC8E3E3" box="[857,1047,1431,1457]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Cephennomicrus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A05231AB7FBFB68E3E3" author="Reitter, E." box="[1057,1207,1431,1457]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="297 - 305" refId="ref51743" refString="Reitter, E. (1907) Verzeichnis der von Dr. F. Eichelbaum im Jahre 1903 in Deutsch - Ostafrika gesammelten Scydmaeniden (Col.). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 26, 297 - 305. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8894" type="journal article" year="1907">Reitter, 1907</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; and
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0523CCB7FBFA43E3E3" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[1271,1436,1431,1457]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523CCB7FBFA43E3E3" box="[1271,1436,1431,1457]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Heterognathus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which includes species currently placed in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052545B7D7FCD7E387" box="[638,776,1467,1493]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052545B7D7FCD7E387" box="[638,776,1467,1493]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and, as it was discovered during the present study, also in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0527ACB78CFEDAE3AB" box="[151,261,1504,1529]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0527ACB78CFEDAE3AB" box="[151,261,1504,1529]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Currently known Australian Stenichnini with broadly separated metacoxae and the transverse antebasal pronotal groove can be found only in the extremely rare
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05241AB468FBB4E04F" authority="Jaloszynski" authorityName="Jaloszynski" authorityYear="2017" box="[801,1131,1539,1565]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Kangarooconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05241AB468FC3EE04F" box="[801,993,1540,1565]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Kangarooconnus</emphasis>
Jałoszyński
</taxonomicName>
(in
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0523A0B46FFF0EE013" author="Jaloszynski, P. &amp; Newton, A. F." pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="401 - 443" refId="ref51103" refString="Jaloszynski, P. &amp; Newton, A. F. (2017) Taxonomy of &quot; Euconnus complex &quot;. Part XV. Disentangling the Euconnus-Sciacharis knot (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa, 4344 (3), 401 - 443. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4344.3.1" type="journal article" year="2017">Jałoszyński &amp; Newton 2017</bibRefCitation>
) (but this genus has a conspicuous median longitudinal pronotal carina that could hardly pass unnoticed by King), a rare
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052616B427FD4CE037" authority="Jaloszynski, 2014 b" authorityName="Jaloszynski" authorityYear="2014" box="[301,659,1611,1637]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Leascydmus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052616B427FE69E037" box="[301,438,1611,1637]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Leascydmus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A052686B427FD4CE037" author="Jaloszynski, P." box="[445,659,1611,1637]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="1 - 76" refId="ref50749" refString="Jaloszynski, P. (2014 b) &quot; The curse of Horaeomorphus &quot;: Taxonomy of misplaced Australian Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa, 3828 (5), 1 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3884.5.2" type="journal article" year="2014">Jałoszyński, 2014b</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(but this genus has a faint transverse pronotal groove, difficult to notice without a stereomicroscope, and it does not have the humeral folds, which in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052317B41CFB63E0DB" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[1068,1212,1647,1673]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macleayii">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052317B41CFB63E0DB" box="[1068,1212,1647,1673]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">H. macleayii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
reach the middle of elytra: “
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0527CAB4FFFD15E0FF" box="[241,714,1683,1709]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">plicatura longitudinali ad medium extensa</emphasis>
”), and in the common and abundant
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052359B4F8FB0FE0FF" box="[1122,1232,1684,1709]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052359B4F8FB0FE0FF" box="[1122,1232,1684,1709]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Other than those, the broadly separated metacoxae can be found in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0525FAB4DBFC2CE083" authority="Reitter, 1884" authorityName="Reitter" authorityYear="1884" box="[705,1011,1719,1745]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cephennodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0525FAB4DBFC87E083" box="[705,856,1719,1745]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Cephennodes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A052464B4DBFC2CE083" author="Reitter, E." box="[863,1011,1719,1745]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="387 - 428" refId="ref51690" refString="Reitter, E. (1884) Beitrag zur Pselaphiden- und Scydmaeniden-Fauna von Java und Borneo. II. Stuck. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 33, 387 - 428, pl. 20. [1883] https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48018830104" type="journal article" year="1884">Reitter, 1884</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0524C5B4DBFB63E083" authorityName="Reitter" authorityYear="1907" box="[1022,1212,1719,1745]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cephennomicrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0524C5B4DBFB63E083" box="[1022,1212,1719,1745]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Cephennomicrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0523C2B4DBFEF0E0A7" authority="Franz, 1986 d" authorityName="Franz" authorityYear="1986" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Paraneseuthia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523C2B4DBFA43E083" box="[1273,1436,1719,1745]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Paraneseuthia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D200C0B0FFB34A0527ACB4B0FEF0E0A7" author="Franz, H." box="[151,303,1755,1782]" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" pagination="147 - 178" refId="ref50437" refString="Franz, H. (1986 d) Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scydmaenidenfauna der Fiji-Inseln. Entomologische Blatter fur Biologie und Systematik der Kafer, 82, 147 - 178." type="journal article" year="1986">Franz, 1986d</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, the only genera of Cephenniitae known to occur in
<collectingCountry id="CE86FDD1FFB34A0524BAB4B7FC34E0A7" box="[897,1003,1755,1781]" name="Australia" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Australia</collectingCountry>
, but their body shapes are so different from those in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05260BB493FE1DE14B" authority="Jałoszyński, 2023" authorityName="Jałoszyński" authorityYear="2023" box="[304,450,1791,1817]" pageId="70" pageNumber="4" rank="subGenus" status="subgen. nov." subGenus="Scydmaenini">Scydmaenini</taxonomicName>
and Stenichnini that King would not have placed any of them in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0523B0B493FAEFE14B" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[1163,1328,1791,1817]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523B0B493FAEFE14B" box="[1163,1328,1791,1817]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Heterognathus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(he knew
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0527ACB54FFE8AE16F" authorityName="Reitter" authorityYear="1907" box="[151,341,1827,1853]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cephennomicrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0527ACB54FFE8AE16F" box="[151,341,1827,1853]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Cephennomicrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which he misplaced in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052556B54FFCDEE16F" authorityName="Stephens" authorityYear="1835" box="[621,769,1827,1853]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Megaladerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052556B54FFCDEE16F" box="[621,769,1827,1853]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Megaladerus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Unless
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A052455B548FC20E16F" authorityName="King" authorityYear="1864" box="[878,1023,1827,1853]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterognathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macleayii">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A052455B548FC20E16F" box="[878,1023,1827,1853]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">H. macleayii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
belongs in a genus unknown to me, the above discussion leads to excluding this species from
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A05242EB52BFC40E133" box="[789,927,1863,1889]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Scydmaenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A05242EB52BFC40E133" box="[789,927,1863,1889]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Scydmaenus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and tentatively placing it in
<taxonomicName id="7191C6C2FFB34A0523DAB524FA90E133" box="[1249,1359,1864,1889]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Euconnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="84E56153FFB34A0523DAB524FA90E133" box="[1249,1359,1864,1889]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Euconnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as the most probable choice.
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