Merinia

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: Pselaphinae
Supertribus: Clavigeritae
Tribus: Clavigerini
Subtribus: Clavigerodina
Genus: Merinia
Species: M. breviceps – M. wasmanni

Name

Merinia Newton & Chandler 1989: 67 [nom. nov.]

• Type species: Imerina breviceps Raffray, 1897, fixed by autotypy.

Synonymy

• Imerina Raffray, 1897: 281 [preoccupied, not Imerina Ragonot, 1891 (Lepidoptera)]

References

Primary references

• Newton, A.F. & Chandler, D.S. 1989. World catalog of the genera of Pselaphidae (Coleoptera). Fieldiana: zoology (n.s.) 53: 1–93. BHL Reference page.  [new name for Imerina Raffray: p. 67]
• Raffray, A. 1897. Nouvelles études sur les psélaphides et les clavigérides. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 65[1896]: 227–284, pls 10–11. [original description of Imerina: p. 281]