Raucalius

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: Staphylininae
Tribus: Staphylinini
Subtribus: Philonthina
Genus: Philonthus
Subgenus: Raucalius
Species: P. colius – P. dendroaspis – P. katangaensis – P. lamtoensis – P. madianus – P. neoniger – P. peripateticus – P. rugulipennis

Name

Philonthus (Raucalius) Tottenham, 1949: 304

• Type species: Philonthus peripateticus Tottenham, 1949, fixed by original designation.

Synonymy

• Heterogaster Cameron, 1951: 406 [preoccupied, not Heterogaster Schilling, 1829 (Hemiptera), Heterogaster Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera), Heterogaster Macquart, 1846 (Diptera)]
  • Type species: Heterogaster niger Cameron, 1951, fixed by monotypy.
• Xanthopygoides Verdcourt, 1952: 176 [new name for Heterogaster Cameron; synonym in Solodovnikov, 2009: 77]

References

Primary references

• Tottenham, C.E. 1949. Studies in the genus Philonthus Stephens (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 100: 291–362. [original description: p. 304]