Published May 19, 2014 | Version v1
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Aenictobia Seevers 1953

  • 1. The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581 Japan
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 3 - 1 - 1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390 - 8621, Japan
  • 3. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi, Matsuyama 790 - 8566, Japan
  • 4. Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
  • 5. Forest Entomology and Microbiology Group, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 61 Paholyothin Road, Jatujak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand

Description

Aenictobia Seevers, 1953

Aenictobia Seevers, 1953: 127 (original description; type species: Aenictobia longicornis Seevers 1952, by original designation); Kistner & Jacobson, 1975: 42 (redescription, description of one additional species); Kistner et al., 1997: 175 (redescription, description of one additional species, species key, placed in subtribe Aenictobiina of tribe Lomechusini); Hlaváč et al., 2011: 8 (transferred to Aenictoteratini); Maruyama et al., 2011: 9 (diagnosis of A. thoi and A. fergusoni).

Comments. Four species, including the new species, are known: A. longicornis Seevers, 1952, A. thoi Kistner & Jacobson, 1975, A. ferugsoni Kistner, 1997, and A. thaiensis Maruyama, sp. n.

Notes

Published as part of Maruyama, Munetoshi, Komatsu, Takashi, Katayama, Yuji, Song, Xiao-Bin & Sakchoowong, Watana, 2014, Myrmecophilous rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus hodgsoni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand, with description of two new genera and three new species, pp. 361-373 in Zootaxa 3796 (2) on page 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4915243

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References

  • Seevers, C. H. (1953) Two genera of myrmecophilous Staphylinidae from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 81, 125 - 131 + 1 pl.
  • Jacobson, H. R. & Kistner, D. H. (1975) The natural history of Pygostenini. Section 1. New species and new records of Pygostenini. Sociobiology, 1, 163 - 200.
  • Kistner, D. H., Weissflog, A., Rosciszewski, K. & Maschwitz, U. (1997) New species, new genera, and new records of myrmecophiles associated with army ants (Aenictus sp.) with the description of a new subtribe of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera; Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Sociobiology, 29, 123 - 221.
  • Maruyama, M., Matsumoto, T. & Itioka, T. (2011) Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus laeviceps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sarawak, Malaysia: strict host specificity, and first myrmecoid Aleocharini. Zootaxa, 3102, 1 - 26.