Papusus

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: Papusini
Genus: Papusus
Species: P. andrewsi – P. esparanza – P. guilianii – P. loebli – P. macer – P. naranjus – P. panamint – P. piceus – P. werneri

Name

Papusus Casey, 1897: 542

• Type species: Papusus macer Casey, 1897, fixed by monotypy.

Note:

• Genus transferred to Scydmaenini by Franz, 1985; synonymized with Leptochromus by Franz, 1995; resurrected as valid name and placed in Clidicini by O’Keefe, 1998.

References

Primary references

• Casey, T.L. 1897. Coleopterological notices. VII. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 9: 286–684. [original description: p. 542]

Additional references

• Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page.  [diagnosis, natural history, remarks: p. 71]
• O'Keefe, S.T. 2002: Revision of the Neotropical genus Leptochromus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae). Systematic entomology, 27: 211–234. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00179.x
• O'Keefe, S.T. 2003: Revision of the Nearctic genus Papusus Casey (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae). Memoirs on entomology international, 17: 257–309.