Orphnebius niger

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: Orphnebius
Subgenus: Deroleptus
Species: Orphnebius niger

Name

Orphnebius (Deroleptus) niger (Cameron, 1939: 492)

• Type locality: Assam, Patkai Mountains.

Synonymy

• Deroleptus niger Cameron, 1939: 492 [original combination]
• Orphnebius turensis Pace, 2012: 289; [synonymy in Assing, 2016: 63]

Native distribution areas

India (Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal).

References

Primary references

• Cameron, M. 1939. Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Staphylinidae. Volume IV. Part I: xviii + 1–410 and II: 411–691. Taylor and Francis, London. PDF (part I) PDF (part II) Reference page.  [original description: p. 492]

Additional references

• Assing, V. 2016. On some Lomechusini of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Beiträge zur entomologie 66(1): 13–111. PDF Reference page.  [syn. nov., material, comment: p. 63, figs. 50–52, 296–298]
• Assing, V. 2017. On the Lomechusini fauna of the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, with a focus on the genera Orphnebius and Amaurodera (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Beiträge zur entomologie 67(1): 063–106. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.67.1.63-106 Reference page.  [material, comment: p. 75]
• Assing, V. 2019. On the Lomechusini fauna of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. XXVI. New species, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Beiträge zur entomologie 69(1): 033–070. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.1.033-070 Reference page.  [records, comment: p. 49]