Palaeostigus bifoveolatus

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: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: Mastigini
Genus: Palaeostigus
Species: Palaeostigus bifoveolatus
Subspecies: P. b. hypocrita – P. b. nemoralis – P. b. oreophilus – P. b. piriensis – P. b. proximus – P. b. simulator – P. b. subalpinus – P. b. tabulae – P. b. vicinus

Name

Palaeostigus bifoveolatus (Boheman, 1851: 526)

Synonymy

• Mastigus bifoveolatus Boheman, 1851: 526 [original combination]
• Mastigus capensis Lhoste, 1937: 196 [incertae sedis (types not found), Leleup 1968; synonym in Orousset 1999: 127; Mastigini incertae sedis, Jaloszynski 2018]

Native distribution areas

South Africa.

References

Primary references

• Boheman, C.H. 1851. Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838–1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Pars I, Fascic. II. Coleoptera. (Buprestides, Elaterides, Cebrionites, Rhipicerides, Cyphonides, Lycides, Lampyrides, Telephorides, Melyrides, Clerii, Terediles, Ptiniores, Palpatores, Silphales, Histeres, Scaphidilia, Nitidulariae, Cryptophagidae, Byrrhii, Dermestini, Parnidae, Hydrophilidae). Norstedt, Holmiae. viii + 625 pp., 2 pls. [original description: p. 526]

Additional references

• Castellini, G. 2007. Note su Scidmenidi del Sudafrica con descrizione di 16 nuove specie. (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae). Fragmenta entomologica 39(2): 199–223. DOI: 10.4081/fe.2007.120 Reference page.  [record, note: p. 222]
• Jałoszyński, P. & Kilian, A. 2019 [2018]. Comparative morphology of second and third instar larvae of Palaeostigus bifoveolatus (Boheman, 1851) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 279: 1–25. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.12.002 Reference page.