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Species of beetle

Priochirus unicolor
Priochirus unicolor from Sumatra. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Staphyliniformia
Family: Staphylinidae
Genus: Priochirus
Species: P. unicolor
Binomial name
Priochirus unicolor
(Laporte, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Leptochirus unicolor Laporte, 1835
  • Priochirus unicolor Heller, 1898
  • Leptochirus coronatus Sachse, 1852

Priochirus unicolor is a species of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae. This species can be found in Indonesia.

Taxonomy

Francis de Laporte de Castelnau described this species in 1835, placing it in the genus Leptochirus. It continued to be classified in this genus by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1840) and Albert Fauvel (1905). Those who placed it in the genus Priochirus included Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller (1898).

Malcolm Cameron classified it in the Triacanthochirus subgenus of Priochirus.

As per a 1920 designation by Robert Lucas, it is the type species of the subgenus Eutriacanthus Jakobson, 1908.

In 2007, Jie Wu and Hong-Zhang Zhou transferred this species to the genus Plastus; this has been accepted by the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.

Distribution

Its type locality is Java. Fauvel wrote that its range included Sumatra, the Banggai Islands, Mentawai Islands, Bodjo, Borneo, Malacca, Cambodje.

In 1898, Heller listed its distribution as Java and the Mentawai Islands.

P. J. M. Greenslade described its range as comprising Indochina, Sumatra, and Java.

Wu and Zhao reported observing it in Yunnan Province, China; they also listed Vietnam as part of its range.

Description

Laport recorded its dimensions as 5½ lignes (≈12.4 mm, 0.49 in) long and 1¼ lignes (≈2.82 mm, 0.111 in) wide. Erichson recorded its length as 6 lignes (≈13.55 mm, 0.533 in). Max Bernhauer recorded its length as 13–16 mm (0.51–0.63 in)

References

  1. ^ Herman, Lee H. (2001). "Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. III. Oxyteline group". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 265: 1141. hdl:2246/5828.
  2. ^ de Laporte, F. L. (1835). "Leptochirus Unicolor". Études entomologiques, ou description d'insectes nouveaux, et observations sur leur synonymie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 125.
  3. ^ Heller, K. M. (1898). "Neue Käfer von Celebes. III". Abhandlungen und Berichte Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden. 7 (3): 8.
  4. Sachse, (1852). "Neue Käfer". Entomologische Zeitung. 13: 146–147.
  5. ^ Wu, Jie; Zhou, Hong-zhang (2007). "Taxonomy of the subgenus Eutriacanthus Jakobson, of the genus Priochirus Sharp, from southern China, with the description of two new species from Guangxi and Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 55 (2): 267–276.
  6. ^ Erichson, Guil. F. (1840). "L. unicolor". Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae. Berlin: F. H. Morin. p. 826.
  7. ^ Fauvel, Albert (1905). "Staphylinides de Java, recueillies par M. le Dr. K. Kraepelin et M. le Dr. Koningsberger en 1904". Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. 22: 77.
  8. Cameron, Malcolm (1936). "Fauna Javanica. The Staphylinidae (Col.) collected by Mr. F. C. Drescher". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 79: 26.
  9. ^ Greenslade, P. J. M. (1971). "The genus Priochirus Sharp, 1887 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): revision of subgeneric classification and descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 123 (2): 137–138. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1971.tb00842.x.
  10. ^ Wu, Jie; Zhou, Hong-Zhang (2007). "Phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of the genus Priochirus Sharp (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Osoriinae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 21 (1): 73–107. doi:10.1071/IS06010.
  11. Schülke, Michael; Smetana, Aleš (2015). "Staphylinidae". In Löbl, Ivan; Löbl, Daniel (eds.). Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2 (Revised & updated ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 748. doi:10.1163/9789004296855. ISBN 9789004296855.
  12. Bernhauer, Max (1903). "Die Staphyliniden-Tribus Leptochirina nebst analytischen Bestimmungstabellen der Gattungen". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 1903 (1): 136. doi:10.1002/mmnd.48019030113.

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