Pelioptera

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: Geostibini
Genus: Pelioptera
Subgenera: Geostibida – Phaediolia

Species overview: P. abdita – P. aberdarensis – P. abyssinorum – P. acuticollis – P. africanides – P. alticola – P. annapurnensis – P. arborum – P. assamensis – P. assingi – P. astuta – P. asymmetrica – P. australiana – P. australiensis – P. austraminima – P. baliensis – P. balkei – P. barrinensis – P. beesoni – P. bituberculata – P. bonensis – P. borneopaca – P. burckhardti – P. burundensis – P. cauta – P. championides – P. chiangmaiensis – P. congoensis – P. consors – P. coriacea – P. dabamontis – P. dalicola – P. dammermani – P. danumensis – P. demangorum – P. dimidiata – P. drugmandi – P. dumogaensis – P. eruensis – P. exasperata – P. excellens – P. flavonitescens – P. franzi – P. fraterna – P. fungi – P. germana – P. giachinoi – P. guangyineensis – P. hartmanni – P. heterocera – P. hexasticta – P. himalayiensis – P. ics – P. indica – P. inermis – P. inutilis – P. irigaster – P. irregularis – P. kivuensis – P. kwantungensis – P. laevior – P. longearmata – P. macropuorum – P. madrasiana – P. major – P. martensi – P. micans – P. microfallax – P. mimarborum – P. mindorensis – P. minima – P. molucchensis – P. monticola – P. natalensis – P. nepaliella – P. newariana – P. nilgiriensis – P. ocyamensis – P. omissa – P. opaca – P. opacoides – P. ophthalmica – P. ornatipennis – P. oroussetiana – P. papuaimpressa – P. perinsolita – P. plena – P. plenitudinis – P. polita – P. problematica – P. pulchella – P. purpurascens – P. quadrituberculata – P. quaesita – P. religiosa – P. rougemonti – P. ruandensis – P. sagadensis – P. samchunensis – P. sanjaya – P. seminuda – P. shaanxiensis – P. similis – P. smetanai – P. specularis – P. sphaeraclavigera – P. stenopaca – P. stirlingicola – P. sulawesicola – P. sydneyensis – P. taitungensis – P. taiwanensis – P. taiwareligiosa – P. tamil – P. tanzaniensis – P. tasmaniana – P. terebra – P. testaceipennis – P. tronqueti – P. tuberiventris – P. unituberculata – P. vanstallei – P. wittei – P. xiaoheiensis – P. xylophila – P. yunnanensis – P. zerchei

Unaccepted names: P. acuticollis – P. africana – P. andrewesi – P. angusticollis – P. annapurnensis – P. championi – P. convergentiae – P. dubia – P. eremita – P. exasperata – P. himalayiana – P. indica – P. koreana – P. kowloonensis – P. lii – P. longicollis – P. martensiana – P. necnilgiriensis – P. nixans – P. ornata – P. parbatensis – P. problematica – P. sakhalinensis – P. sikhaensis – P. smetanaiana – P. superba – P. taiwanova – P. viatica

Name

Pelioptera Kraatz, 1857: 55

Type species: Pelioptera micans Kraatz, 1857, designated in Fenyes, 1918: 24.

Synonymy

Termitopora Motschulsky, 1860: 91
- Type species: Termitopora adustipennis Motschulsky, 1860, fixed by monotypy.
Pseudotetrasticta Eichelbaum, 1913: 148, [synonym in Pace, 1986: 109]
- Type species: Pseudotetrasticta polita Eichelbaum, 1913, fixed by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Kraatz, G., 1857: Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Termitophilen. Linnaea Entomologica, 11: 44–56 + pl. 1. BHL [original description: p. 55]
Pace, R. 1986. Aleocharinae dell’Africa Orientale (Coleoptera Staphylinidae) (LXXVI Contributo alla conoscenza delle Aleocharinae). Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 78: 83–143, 239 figs. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [syn. nov.: p. 109]

Additional references

Lee, S-G. & Ahn, K-J. 2019. Taxonomy of the genus Pelioptera Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) in Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(2): 197–203. DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.004 Reference page. [diagnosis, Key to Korean specie: p. 197]
Pace, R. 2009. Aleocharinae dell'Irian Jaya (Nuova Guinea) al Naturkundemuseum di Erfurt (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). (230° Contributo alla conoscenza delle Aleocharinae). [Aleocharinae from Irian Jaya (New Guinea) in the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).] Veröffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt - VERNATE 28: 259–329. Reference page. [key to the species of New Guinea: p. 278]