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Zootaxa 3075: 1–151 (2011) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2011 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) ZOOTAXA 3075 World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) PETER HLAVÁČ1, ALFRED F. NEWTON2 & MUNETOSHI MARUYAMA3 1Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected] 2Zoology Department/Insect Division, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 USA. E-mail: [email protected] 3The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by J. Klimaszewski: 18 Jul. 2011; published: 28 Oct. 2011 Peter Hlaváč, Alfred F. Newton & Munetoshi Maruyama World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) (Zootaxa 3075) 151 pp.; 30 cm. 28 Oct. 2011 ISBN 978-1-86977-811-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-812-5 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2011 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2011 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 3075 © 2011 Magnolia Press HLAVÁČ ET AL. Table of contents Abstract . 3 Introduction . 4 Methods . 4 Nomenclatural and taxonomic corrections and changes . 6 1. Replacement names . 6 2. Reinstated junior secondary homonyms . 7 3. Genera moved or excluded from Lomechusini . 7 4. New synonymies and assignments . 8 5. Other taxonomic problems . 10 Natural history . 11 Catalogue of Species . 12 Subtribe Lomechusina. 12 Subtribe Myrmedoniina. 16 Subtribe Termitozyrina . 120 Acknowledgments . 122 References . 122 Appendix 1 . 144 Appendix 2 . 148 Appendix 3 . 153 Abstract All names of species and higher taxa proposed in the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) up to the end of the year 2010 are cataloged, with a full bibliography of original descriptions. The original combination of the described spe- cies, original citation of their type localities and their world distributions are given. The following replacement names are proposed for newly discovered primary and secondary junior homonyms: Brachysipalia elgon nom. nov. (= B. elgonensis Pace), Drusilla sculpticollides nom. nov. (=Drusilla sculpticollis Pace), Macrogerodonia bolivianides nom. nov. (=M. bo- liviana Pace), Orphnebius curticornides nom. nov. (= O. curticornis Pace 2008), Pachorhopala ituri nom. nov. (= P. ge - rardi Bernhauer 1932) , Zyras (Camonia) aethiopicides nom. nov. (=Zyras (Camonia) aethiopicus Pace) and Zyras (Zyras) neoparageminus nom. nov. (= Zyras (Zyras) parageminus Pace). The following secondary homonyms are rein- stated as valid: Drusilla opacicollis Cameron (= D. vedda Pace), and Zyras (Grammodonia) erraticus Last (= Z. (G. ) ad- jectus Last). The following new synonymies are proposed (junior synonym first): Aenictobiina Kistner (= Aenictoteratini Kistner), Athexeniina Pace (= Myrmedoniina Thomson), Thoracophagus Kistner (= Drusilla Leach), Urodonia Silvestri (= Pedinopleurus Cameron), Lomechusoides hosodai K. Sawada (= L. amurensis (Bernhauer)), Diplopleurus notabilis Pace (= Trachydonia incredibilis Bernhauer), and Acanthoglossa badia Motschulsky (= Zyras (Glossacantha) affinis Kraatz) (the last-mentioned being a reversal of precedence). The following new combinations are established: Aenictocleptis antennarius (Pace) ex Zyras (Glosacantha); Drusilla congoensis (Kistner) ex Thoracophagus; Pedinopleurus notabilis (Silvestri) ex Urodonia; Pedinopleurus reptans (Pace) and Pedinopleurus tumorfrontalis (Pace ) ex Zyras (Diaulaconia); Pseudastilbus fortispina (Pace) ex Zyras (Glosacantha) and Deroleptus draco (Assing) ex Orphnebius. A lectotype is designated for Lomechusoides ganglbaueri (Bernhauer) to fix this name as a synonym of L. amurensis (Wasmann). The following genera are newly included into Lomechusini, subtribe Myrmedoniina: Aenictophila Seevers, Athexenia Pace, Cephaplakoxena Pace, Malaybergius Kistner, Mimaenictus Kistner & Jacobson, Procantonnetia Kistner & Jacobson, Steysborgia Kistner & Jacobson and Weissflogia Kistner. The genus Myrmigaster Sharp is removed from Lomechusini to Oxypodini. Nomenclatural problems with the names Lomechusa Gravenhorst, Lomechusoides Tot- tenham and Atemeles Dillwyn, and recent taxonomic changes to the genus Orphnebius Motschulsky, are also discussed. Lomechusini as currently constituted includes 207 genera and 2205 species or subspecies placed in the subtribes Lom- echusina (3 genera, 40 species or subspecies), Termitozyrina (11 genera, 16 species) and Myrmedoniina (193 genera and 2149 species or subspecies). Their regional distribution patterns and extensive associations with ants and termites are briefly summarized. Key words: Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Lomechusini, catalogue, world, myrmecophile, termitophile WORLD CATALOGUE OF LOMECHUSINI Zootaxa 3075 © 2011 Magnolia Press · 3 Introduction The tribe Lomechusini Fleming, 1821 (earlier often known by the younger names Myrmedoniini Thomson, 1867 or Zyrasini Bradley, 1930) belongs to the largest Staphylinidae subfamily, Aleocharinae Fleming, 1821. The tribe is used here in a still widely accepted historical sense (e.g., Ashe 2000, Seevers 1978, Smetana 2004), although it is far from certain that it is a monophyletic group, as noted most recently in the molecular phylogenetic study of Elven et al. (2010). As currently constituted, the tribe comprises 2205 extant species and subspecies, which are placed in three subtribes and 207 genera. Members are found in all regions of the world except on oceanic islands, Antarctica, and temperate South America as defined here. The group has long been of special interest to biologists because many of them are associated in some way with ants or termites, although a majority of species have been found outside of nests and are probably free living predators. A few species (Anopsapterus Lecoq, Apteranillus Fairmaire, Apteraphaenops Jeannel and Typhlozyras Jeannel) are strictly cavernicolous. One genus, Leleupidiella Jarrige, lives in association with small mammals of the genus Cryptomys. The goals of this catalogue are to provide a complete and current list and taxonomic bibliography of the described subtribes, genera, subgenera, species, subspecies and synonyms of the tribe Lomechusini as currently constituted, together with the resolution of several outstanding nomenclatural and taxonomic problems in the tribe and a list of associated ants or termites when possible. FIGURE 1. Methods In the catalog, all known described genera, subgenera, species and subspecies of Lomechusini, as the tribe is cur- rently constituted, are listed in alphabetical order within each subtribe, which are also listed in alphabetical order. 4 · Zootaxa 3075 © 2011 Magnolia Press HLAVÁČ ET AL. Synonyms are listed in chronological order (genera and higher taxa) or alphabetical order (species). Nomina nuda and dubia are listed separately after the valid species of the relevant genus or subgenus. Geographic regions are defined and abbreviated as follows: PAL Palaearctic region: Africa north of Sahara, Canary Islands, Madeira, all of Asia except Yemen and the Oriental region (including Japan, but not Okinawa or the Ryukyu Islands) NEA Nearctic region: America north of Mexico AFR Afrotropical region: Africa south of Sahara, Cape Verde Islands, southern part of Arabian peninsula (Yemen), Madagascar, Réunion, Mauritius, Comores, Seychelles, but excluding Republic of South Africa NEO Neotropical region: Mexico, Central America (including Caribbean islands) and South America except Chile and southern Argentina RSA Temperate southern Africa: Republic of South Africa SAM Temperate South America: Chile and southern Argentina (south of 35o south latitude) ORT Oriental region: Pakistan east of Indus river, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Banglagesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, southern part of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia except Papua (New Guinea). The following provinces of China belong to the Oriental region: Yun- nan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fukien and southern parts (always about half of the territory)