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Paraphloeostiba Steel 1960

Description

The genus Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960

Based on the previously published data (Shavrin 2023b) and new data, the genus Paraphloeostiba containing 59 extant species from the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Oriental, Australian and Oceanic regions (see the map of the distribution of the genus in Fig. 5 in Jenkins Shaw et al. (2023)). Three extinct species were described from the Baltic (Zanetti et al. 2016, Shavrin & Yamamoto 2019) and the Dominican (Jenkins Shaw et al. 2023) amber. The morphological features of the genus can be found in Steel (1960), Zanetti (2011), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2023), etc. Members of the genus can be found in leaf litter, decaying plant remains, dung and carrion, in fermenting fruits, under the bark of trees, on flowers, etc.

Notes

Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Twenty-one new species of Omaliini from the Papuan Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), with diagnostic and faunistic notes on some species of the genus Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960, pp. 251-307 in Zootaxa 5424 (3) on page 257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10821214

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Paraphloeostiba
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Steel
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960 sec. Shavrin, 2024

References

  • Steel, W. O. (1960) Three new omaliine genera from Asia and Australasia previously confused with Phloeonomus Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 112, 141 - 172. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1960. tb 00497. x
  • Shavrin, A. V. (2023 b) New species and records of the genus Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from Papua New Guinea, and notes on some species from India, Indonesia and Philippines. Zootaxa, 5301 (4), 486 - 500. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5301.4.6
  • Jenkins Shaw, J., Shavrin, A. V., Kairiss, K. & Solodovnikov, A. (2023) Paraphloeostiba dominicana sp. nov.: the first omaliine rove beetle from Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 127 (3), 104412. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jsames. 2023.104412
  • Zanetti, A., Perreau, M. & Solodovnikov, A. (2016) Two new fossil species of Omaliinae from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and their significance for understanding the Eocene-Oligocene climate. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 74, 53 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / asp. 74. e 31838
  • Shavrin, A. V. & Yamamoto, S. (2019) Unexpected palaeodiversity of omaliine rove beetles in Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae). ZooKeys, 863, 35 - 83. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 863.34662
  • Zanetti, A. (2011) Unterfamilie Omaliinae. In: Assing, V. & Schulke, M. (Eds.), Die Kafer Mitteleuropas. Band 4. Staphylinidae I. Zweite neubearbeitete Auflage. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 49 - 117.