Drusilla

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: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Lomechusini
Subtribus: Myrmedoniina
Genus: Drusilla
Subgenera: Apteranopsis – Tropignorimus

Species overview: D. adjacens – D. aeneicollis – D. aequatorialis – D. aerea – D. affinis – D. aino – D. alutacea – D. anceps – D. andrewesi – D. angularis – D. ashei – D. assamensis – D. attenuata – D. baliensis – D. bartolozzii – D. bernhaueri – D. besucheti – D. bicarinicollis – D. bicolor – D. bifida – D. bilobata – D. bispinosa – D. bituberculata – D. borneensis – D. borneoapicalis – D. borneoclara – D. borneoruficollis – D. borneostricta – D. brevipennis – D. breviuter – D. bruneiensis – D. bruneiorum – D. bryanti – D. bucina – D. bulbata – D. bulbosa – D. burgeoniana – D. butuanensis – D. caelata – D. caelaticollis – D. calicis – D. cameroni – D. canaliculata – D. caputserpentis – D. carinithorax – D. celebensis – D. cenwanglaomontis – D. cernens – D. congoensis – D. convexifrons – D. cretica – D. cupulifer – D. damingensis – D. danumensis – D. dendrolasii – D. denigrata – D. denticollis – D. dharmapuriensis – D. dimidiata – D. divergens – D. dorylophila – D. drescheri – D. dumogaicola – D. dusunorum – D. endopilosella – D. endorica – D. erichsoni – D. feae – D. fissata – D. flagellata – D. flava – D. flavicornis – D. foeda – D. fontis – D. foreli – D. fossulicollis – D. fossulifera – D. frater – D. gabonensis – D. ganglbaueri – D. gibberella – D. gilva – D. gracilicornis – D. gracilis – D. granulata – D. granulicollis – D. guineensis – D. haematica – D. heydeni – D. hipponensis – D. holoserica – D. impressicollis – D. imurai – D. incola – D. inflatae – D. iniqua – D. intermedia – D. italica – D. jacobsoni – D. javana – D. kabyliana – D. kadooriorum – D. kamerunensis – D. kathmanduensis – D. katiki – D. keiichii – D. khamhengi – D. kinabaluensis – D. kisumuensis – D. laevicauda – D. lateremaculata – D. lativentris – D. lethierryi – D. liangicola – D. limata – D. lineatocollis – D. longatheca – D. longispinosa – D. lucens – D. lucida – D. luzonica – D. lydica – D. magniceps – D. mahnerti – D. malaisei – D. malindensis – D. manenekarum – D. manubrifera – D. memnonia – D. meridiana – D. mixta – D. montanella – D. monticola – D. nearctica – D. necaerea – D. nepalensis – D. nigra – D. nigrescens – D. nilgiriensis – D. nomurai – D. obliqua – D. obliquoides – D. occipitalis – D. ocularis – D. opacipennis – D. operosa – D. orientalis – D. orissaensis – D. pallidicornis – D. papuana – D. pendleburyi – D. penicillata – D. perakensis – D. perdensa – D. perforans – D. persica – D. persulcata – D. pervisa – D. philippina – D. planaticollis – D. plena – D. plicipennis – D. profunda – D. proxima – D. pudukkottaiensis – D. puetzi – D. punctatissima – D. raffrayi – D. rantepaoicola – D. recta – D. refugita – D. rougemonti – D. rougemontiana – D. ruficornis – D. rufiventris – D. rufobrunnea – D. rufocaelata – D. rufoflava – D. sabahensis – D. sabahorum – D. samalica – D. schawalleri – D. sculpticollides – D. semicircularis – D. semicyanea – D. semimonticola – D. semiobliqua – D. semipunctata – D. semirubra – D. serrulae – D. shavrini – D. singalorum – D. sinicola – D. sinuosa – D. smetanai – D. sparsa – D. spiniventris – D. spissatheca – D. stevensi – D. strigicollis – D. subsplendens – D. suturalis – D. takashii – D. taygetana – D. terrestris – D. thai – D. theryi – D. tigrata – D. todolarum – D. trigonocephala – D. trina – D. trituberculata – D. tronqueti – D. tuberculata – D. ulusegamicola – D. umranicola – D. umtaliensis – D. unicolor – D. veluticollis – D. villosa – D. wallacei – D. watanabei – D. yunnanensis – D. zhejiangensis – D. zimbabwensis – D. zyrasoides

Invalid species names: D. adulescens – D. bomfordi – D. brignolii – D. franzi – D. neocoenonicacollis – D. notatipennis – D. opacicollis – D. palata – D. puella – D. rorida – D. truncatella – D. vedda – D. thaifuscicollis

Name

Drusilla Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 177

Type species: Staphylinus canaliculatus Fabricius, 1787 fixed by original designation.

Synonymy

Drusilla Leach in Samouelle, 1819: 177 [original description]; Seevers, 1978: 152 [redescription]; Maruyama, 2000: 351 [revision and key of Japanese species]
Astilbus Dillwyn, 1829: 63 [New name for Drusilla Leach; unnecessary]
- Type species: Staphylinus canaliculatus Fabricius, 1787, fixed by monotypy.
Agaricola Gistel, 1834: 10
- Type species: Staphylinus canaliculatus Fabricius, fixed by monotypy.
Myrmedonia Erichson, 1837: 286
- Type species: Staphylinus canaliculatus Fabricius, designated by Duponchel, 1841: 57
Camacopalpus Motschoulsky, 1858: 231 [synonymy in Klimaszewski, 1982: 421]
- Type species: Camacopalpus flavicornis Motschulsky, designated by Fenyes, 1918: 21.
Santhota Sharp, 1874: 3 [synonymy in Maruyama, 2000: 351]
- Type species: Santhota sparsa Sharp, by monotypy.
Astilbus (Anaulax) Bernhauer, 1929d: 231 [preoccupied, not de Roissy, 1805, not Murray, 1859; synonymy in Blackwelder, 1952: 137]
- Type species: Astilbus semicircularis Bernhauer, fixed by monotypy.
Astilbus (Evansius) Bernhauer, 1933: 297
- Type species: Astilbus denticollis Bernhauer, fixed by monotypy.
Thoracophagus Kistner 2003: 561 [new synonym in Hlaváč, Newton & Maruyama, 2011: 9]
- Type species: Thoracophagus congoensis Kistner, 2003, fixed by original designation.

References

Primary references

Samouelle, G. 1819. The entomologists' useful compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. Thomas Boys, London, 496 pp., 12 pls. BHL

Additional references

Eldredge, K.T. 2012. Review of the Nearctic species of Drusilla Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Zootaxa 3300: 45–54. Preview Reference page.
Pace, R. 2012. Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Lomechusini e Thamiaraeini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 62(1): 77–102.