Metopiasini

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: Euplectitae
Tribus: Metopiasini
Subtribus (2): Metopiasina – Rhinoscepsina

Overview of genera

Barrometopia – Bibrax – Chandleria – †Hagnometopias – Metopias – Metopiasoides – Metopiellus – Metopiosoma – Metopioxys – Rhinoscepsis

Name

Metopiasini Raffray, 1904: 490

• Type genus: Metopias Gory, 1832.

Synonymy

• Metopiini Raffray, 1904: 106 [junior homonym of Metopioidae Foerster, 1868 (Hym.: Ichneumonidae: Metopius); senior homonym of Metopiini Townsend, 1908 (Dipt.)]

Note:

• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1994).

References

Primary references

• Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des Psélaphides. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 72 (4): 484–604, 3 pls. [original description: p. 490]
• ICZN 1994. Opinion 1772. Metopiini Raffray, 1904 (Insecta, Coleoptera): spelling emended to Metopiasini, and Metopiini Townsend, 1908 (Insecta, Diptera): spelling emended to Metopiaini, so removing the homonymy with Metopiinae Foerster, [1869] (Insecta, Hym.). Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 51: 174–175.