Megarthrus

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: Proteininae
Tribus: Proteinini
Genus: Megarthrus
Species: M. abessinus – M. adelphus – M. affinis – M. africanus – M. aino – M. alatorreorum – M. alesi – M. alienus – M. alticola – M. altivagans – M. americanus – M. andinus – M. anggiensis – M. angulicollis – M. antennalis – M. apicicornis – M. arcuatus – M. ashei – M. atratus – M. auricola – M. balensis – M. baliemensis – M. bantu – M. basicornis – M. basilewskyi – M. bellevoyei – M. bierigi – M. bimaculatus – M. birmanus – M. borealis – M. budai – M. calcaratus – M. carticulis – M. cavianae – M. chatterjeei – M. chiapas – M. chobauti – M. chujiao – M. clarkei – M. con – M. conformis – M. congoensis – M. conspirator – M. constrictus – M. convexus – M. coreanus – M. corticalis – M. danieli – M. dentatus – M. denticollis – M. dentipes – M. depressus – M. dissymetricus – M. dominicae – M. ecriptus – M. elevatus – M. excisus – M. fakir – M. falasha – M. fennicus – M. festivus – M. fijianus – M. flavolimbatus – M. flavosignatus – M. flavus – M. geginati – M. gigas – M. globulus – M. gressitti – M. harennaensis – M. heise – M. hemipterus – M. horticola – M. hutu – M. impressicollis – M. inaequalis – M. incubifer – M. integricollis – M. ivani – M. japonicus – M. kamerunensis – M. kuscheli – M. lanka – M. lisae – M. longicornis – M. machu – M. magnicaudatus – M. magnificus – M. mahnerti – M. major – M. malaisei – M. mammiger – M. maniwaata – M. maronitus – M. martensi – M. mastiger – M. merabet – M. metanas – M. minimus – M. minor – M. mirabilis – M. montanus – M. monticola – M. mukankundiyeorum – M. mwami – M. nanus – M. narendrani – M. negus – M. newtoni – M. nigerrima – M. nigrinus – M. nilgiriensis – M. niloticus – M. nitidulus – M. notabilis – M. occidentalis – M. occipitalis – M. octopus – M. ogloblini – M. oromo – M. ovalis – M. panda – M. panga – M. parallelus – M. pecki – M. peckorum – M. phoenix – M. pictus – M. ping – M. primus – M. prosseni – M. ras – M. retusus – M. riedeli – M. rougemonti – M. rufomarginatus – M. saddu – M. sahlbergi – M. sawadai – M. scotti – M. scriptus – M. sculpticollis – M. selenitus – M. septempunctatus – M. serrula – M. sexpunctatus – M. shibatai – M. simienensis – M. sinuatocollis – M. smetanai – M. solitarius – M. spathuliformis – M. spinosus – M. splendidus – M. stercorarius – M. strandi – M. stylifer – M. sumatrensis – M. tac – M. taiwanus – M. thomsoni – M. tibialis – M. tic – M. trisinuatus – M. tukchensis – M. twa – M. uhligi – M. umbonatus – M. vanschuytbroecki – M. vastus – M. watutsi – M. wayqecha – M. wittei – M. wollastoni – M. yeti – M. zekorum – M. zerchei – M. zulu – M. zunilensis

In synonymy: M. franzi – M. heteropus – M. rufescens – M. subangulatus – M. subparallelus

Name

Megarthrus Stephens, 1829: 24

Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1789, fixed by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1838: 18.

Synonymy

Phloeobium Dejean, 1833: 69
- Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1789, fixed by monotypy.
Psyllius Gistel, 1834: 9
- Type species: Staphylinus depressus Paykull, 1789, fixed by virtual monotypy.

References

Primary references

Stephens, J.F. 1829: The nomenclature of British insects; being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and forming a guide to their classification, &c. &c. 68 pp. London: Baldwin and Cradock. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.51800 Reference page. [original description: p. 24]

Additional references

Cuccodoro, G. 1996: Revision of the Japanese rove-beetles of the genus Megarthrus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Revue suisse de zoologie, 103(2): 475–524. PDF
Cuccodoro, G. 1998: Revision and phylogeny of Megarthrus Curtis 1829 from New Guinea, New Caledonia and Fiji (Coleoptera Staphylinidae Proteininae). Tropical zoology, 11(1): 103–137.
Cuccodoro, G. 1999: Four new species of Megarthrus Curtis, 1829 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae) from the Bale Mountains, southern Ethiopia. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 72(3-4): 373–386.
Cuccodoro, G. 2003: A revision of Megarthrus Curtis of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteinini). Memoirs on Entomology International, 17: 359–455.
Cuccodoro, G. 2011. Megarthrus of Taiwan, with notes on phylogenetic relationships within the genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Studies and reports of District Museum Prague-East (taxonomical series) 7(1–2): 25–92. Reference page.
Cuccodoro, G. 2011. Revision of the Neotropical types of Megarthrus Curtis, 1829 and description of two new species from Costa Rica and Peru (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Revue suisse de zoologie 118(1): 107–147. BHL Reference page.
Cuccodoro, G. & Liu, Z-P. 2016. Megarthrus of southern India and Sri Lanka, with notes on their phylogenetic and biogeographical relationships (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Zootaxa 4097(4): 530–544. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.4.5.Reference page. [Key to the species of Megarthrus from southern India and Sri Lanka: p. 531]
Cuccodoro, G. & Löbl, I. 1995. Revision of the Afrotropical rove-beetles of the genus Megarthrus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Revue suisse de zoologie 102(3): 655–761. BHL Reference page.
Cuccodoro, G. & Löbl, I. 1996. Revision of the rove-beetles of the genus Megarthrus of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 86: 145–188. BHL Reference page.
Cuccodoro, G. & Löbl, I. 1997. Revision of the Palaearctic rove beetles of the genus Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Journal of Natural History 31(9): 1347–1415. DOI: 10.1080/00222939700770761 PDF Reference page.
Liu, Z-P. & Cuccodoro, G. 2021. Megarthrus of China. Part 4. The M. hemipterus complex (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae), with description of a new species from Yunnan Province. Zookeys 1056ː 17–34. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1056.66553 Reference page.
Rodríguez, W.D. & Navarrete-Heredia, J.L. 2015: A new Mexican species of Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Zootaxa 3918(4): 594–598. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.9. Reference page.