Balchis microptera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Staphylininae
Tribus: Xantholinini
Genus: Balchis
Species: Balchis microptera

Name

Balchis microptera (Bernhauer, 1931: 580)

• Type locality: ETHIOPIA: Abyssinia: Mt. Chillalo, 12,000–13,000 ft. and ca. 9,000 ft.
• Lectotype: FMNH, ♂, 21.XI.1926, Dr. H. Scott. [designated in Bordoni, 2016: 764]

Synonymy

• Leptacinus micropterus Bernhauer, 1931: 580 [original combination]; scheerpeltz, 1933: 1302; Herman, 2001: 3678
  • Balchis microptera — Bordoni, 2016: 764

References

Primary references

• Bernhauer, M., 1931: Part II. Systematic. pp. 565–605. In M. Bernhauer and H. Scott, Entomological expedition to Abyssinia, 1926–7: Coleoptera, Staphylinidae. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 37: 559–605. [original description: p. 580]
• Bordoni, A. 2018. Revision of the Afrotropical Xantholinini (Coleoptera Staphylinidae). Biodiversity journal 2016, 7(4): 389–894. PDF. Reference page.  [comb. nov., lectotype, material, description, distribution: p. 764]

Additional references

• Bordoni, A. 2019. New data on the Afrotropical Xantholinini. 3. New species from Ethiopia of the Naturkundemuseum, Erfurt (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). (291° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 69(1): 79–85. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.1.079-085 Reference page.  [material, distribution, remarks: p. 82]
• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. VI. Staphylinine group (Part 3). Staphylininae: Staphylinini (Quediina, Staphylinina, Tanygnathinina, Xanthopygina), Xantholinini. Staphylinidae incertae sedis. Fossils, Protactinae†. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 3021–3840. hdl: 2246/5831 Reference page.  [catalog: p. 3678]