Revision of the Afrotropical species of the Philonthus maculipennis species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina)

Autor: Hromádka, Lubomír
Jazyk: angličtina
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Druh dokumentu: Non-fiction
ISSN: 1211-376X
Abstrakt: Abstract: The Philonthus maculipennis species group of the genus Philonthus Stephens, 1829, is proposed, containing 11 species, two species are described as new: Philonthus lanius sp. n. (Cameroon), P. synodontis sp. nov. (Liberia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Uganda), remaining nine species are redescribed: Philonthus constricticeps Tottenham, 1949 (Zimbabwe), P. cruentus Bernhauer, 1915 (Tanzania), P. ischnocerus Cameron, 1935 (Democratic Republic of the Congo), P. jacksoni (Cameron, 1950) (Uganda), P. jelineki Hromádka, 2009 (South Africa), P. kashiutensis Tottenham, 1949 (Zambia), P. kigenius Tottenham, 1962 (South Africa), P. maculipennis Fauvel, 1903 (Cameroon, Central African Republic), P. smaragdinus Tottenham, 1949 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia). One species is transfered to Philonthus Stephens, 1829 from the genus Gabrius Stephens, 1829: Philonthus jacksoni (Cameron, 1950) comb. nov. All species of the P. maculipennis species group are keyed, the aedeagi and relevant morphological characters of all species are figured.
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