Palaeostigus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: Mastigini
Genus:
Species: P. bifoveolatus – P. ericeti – P. heydenii – P. micans – P. palpalis – P. pilifer – P. procerus – P. prolongatus – P. ruficornis – P. tenuis – P. transvaalensis

Name

Palaeostigus Newton in Newton & Franz, 1998: 155

Type species: Mastigus palpalis Latreille, 1804, fixed by original designation.

Synonymy

Mastigus — Leleup, 1968: 10 [misidentified, not Mastigus Latreille, 1802]
- Type species: Mastigus palpalis Latreille, 1804 [designated in Leleup, 1968: 7; invalid designation, species not originally included].

References

Primary references

Newton, A.F. & Franz, H. 1998. World catalog of the genera of Scydmaenidae (Coleoptera). Koleopterologische rundschau 68: 137–165. PDF Reference page. [original description: p. 155]

Additional references

Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page. [diagnosis, characteristics, distribution, remarks: p. 86]