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Batraxis Reitter 1881

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Genus Batraxis Reitter, 1881

This is a diverse group comprising 65 species distributed mainly in the Oriental-Australian Region, with a few species reaching the eastern and southern Palaearctic Realm, and one (i.e., B. hampei Reitter, 1881, type species of the genus) occurring in Greece (WANG et al. 2016; WANG & YIN 2016a, b; LÖBL 2017). Members have been commonly encountered in sifted samples of leaf litter or associated with decomposing logs, while two species from Japan were postulated to be inquilines of Lasius Fabricius, 1804 ants (NOMURA 1986, MARUYAMA 2004). Here the first cavernicolous species of Batraxis is described.

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Published as part of Yin, Zi-Wei, 2020, New species of karst-dwelling Pselaphinae from southwestern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 163-168 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 164, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.009, http://zenodo.org/record/3879323

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/EA0E87CBFF9D0B06FE8CFEED313301B1

Is part of
Journal article: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.009 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3879323 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1637FFB3FF9C0B07FFAAFFDB3308030D (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/8E4127DB-9AFC-4902-B411-4B43329B9A18 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/EA0E87CBFF9D0B06FE8CFEED313301B1 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164479883 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21743/taxon/EA0E87CBFF9D0B06FE8CFEED313301B1.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Batraxis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Reitter
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Batraxis Reitter, 1881 sec. Yin, 2020

References

  • WANG D., YIN Z. - W. & WANG C. - X. 2016: On a collection of Batraxis Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Hainan Island, southern China. Zootaxa 4109 (1): 1 - 15.
  • WANG D. & YIN Z. - W. 2016 a: New species and records of Batraxis Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) in continental China. Zootaxa 4147 (4): 443 - 465.
  • LOBL I. 2017: On the Batraxis species of Sri Lanka and the identity of Maya uzeli Blattny (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Folia Heyrovskyana, Series A 25 (1): 13 - 19.
  • NOMURA S. 1986: Descriptions of two new myrmecophilous species of the family Pselaphidae (Coleoptera) from Japan. Kontyu 54 (3): 498 - 504.
  • MARUYAMA M. & SUGAYA H. 2004: A new myrmecophilous species of Batraxis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), associated with Lasius (Chthonolasius) sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from Hokkaido, Japan. Elytra 32 (2): 321 - 325.