Nomenclatural Changes in the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Review of the Anotylus cimicoides species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)

“…Anotylus anguliceps (Cameron, 1934) ( 103) Oxytelopsis anguliceps Cameron, 1934: 31;Cameron 1936: 30;Herman 1970 Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu National Park, Poring Hot Springs, 495 m, 23.VIII.1988, leg.…”

“…Anotylus chinensis (Bernhauer, 1938) (Figs 43-49, 78) Oxytelopsis chinensis Bernhauer, 1938: 20;Herman 1970 Ito, 1987" (coll. Ito).…”

“…In the broader Himalaya area (plus Sri Lanka) such brachypterous species have very narrow distributional ranges (Hammond 1975) and surprisingly, there can be more than one species in the same area in relatively close proximity (A. montanus and A. ceylonicus in the highest parts of Sri Lanka, A. franzi and A. hartmanni in the central part of Nepal, A. bengalensis and A. jaljulensis along the far eastern borders of Nepal). In Southeast Asia the larger islands have their species more or less endemic to them, as opposed to, for example, the recently revised Paraploderus Herman, 1970(Makranczy 2016, but in several instances (e.g. A. kabasi and A. nigricans) a dubiously identified specimen from a neighbouring island is known and this must be further investigated.…”

Xanthopygoides niger Cameron, 1951 (Xanthopygina) belongs to the genus Philonthus Stephens, 1829 (Philonthina): systematic and nomenclatural changes for the African Staphylinini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Staphylinini)

“…Transfer of Xanthopygoides niger to Philonthus (Raucalius) led to a new synonymy, Raucalius Tottenham, 1949= Xanthopygoides Verdcourt, 1952. Th e new combination Philonthus niger (Cameron, 1951), preoccupied by Philonthus niger (O. Müller, 1764), a synonym of Philonthus splendens (Fabricius, 1793) (Herman 2001a), had to be replaced by a new name Philonthus neoniger Solodovnikov.…”

Second record of bioluminescence in larvae of Xantholinus Dejean (Staphylinidae, Xantholinini) from Brazil

“…The material studied is The genus Xantholinus comprises ca. 274 species and is found in all zoogeographic regions (Herman 2001). The immature stages of the majority of the species are unknown.…”