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-562- 4(3). Prosternal epimera absent;
anterior tarsus of male simple . . . . . . Erchomus Motschulsky Prosternal epimera present; anterior tarsus of male dilated . . . . .Tachinomorphus Kraatz 5 (2). Abdomen without
paratergites; head and pronotum densely pubescent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sepedaphilus Gistel Abdomen with paratergites; head and pronotum not densely
pubescent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tachyporus Gravenhorst 6(1). Last segment of maxillary
palpus subulate .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mycetoporus Mannerheim Last segment of maxillary palpus not subulate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 7 (6). Last segment of labial
palpus wider than penultimate. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bolitobius Leach Last segment of labial palpus not wider than penultimate.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 8(7). Last segment of labial
palpus not narrower than penultimate . . . . . . .Lordithon Thomson Last segment of labial pal pus narrower than penultimate.
. . . . . . . . . . Bryoporus Kraatz ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We
extend our thanks to T. W. Fisher, Gordon Gordh, Gary S. Olton, Robert E. Orth,
John Pinto, Sergei V. Triapitsyn, Saul Frommer, Mary Ann Walsh and other
colleagues of the University of California at Riverside for helpful advice,
criticism and other favors and to Hugh B. Leech of the California Academy of
Sciences for loan of material and other favors through the years. Special thanks to Milton Campbell for
securing our final collection of Staphylinidae. LITERATURE CITED ARNET, Ross. 1961. The beetles of the United States (a manual for
identification). Part II, fasc. 15, pp. 233~310, 31 figs. Washington:
The Catholic University of America Press. BLACKWELDER, RICHARD E.. 1939. A generic revision of the
staphylinid beetles of the tribe Paederini. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 81:93-125. BLATCHLEY, WILLIS S.. 1910. The Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive
of the Ryncophora) known to occur in Indiana with bibliography
and descriptions of new species. Ind. Dept. Geol. and Natur. Res. Bull. 1:1-1386. BRADLEY, JAMES CHESTER. 1930. A manual of the genera of the
beetles of America north of Mexico. Keys for the determination
of the families, subfamilies, tribes, and genera of Coleoptera with a synoptic list of
genera and higher groups, 360 pp. Daw, IlIiston & Co.: Ithaca. CAMPBELL, MILTON. 1968. A revision of the new world
Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with are. arrangement of
the world species. Can. En. 100: 225-67, 34 figs. 1969. A revision of the new world
Oxyporinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Canad. Ent. 101: 225-68, 52 figs. COIFFAIT, HENRI. 1962.
Les Leptotyphlitae (Col. Staphylinidae) de Californie. Rev. Fr.
Ent. 19:154-66, 58 figs. HAMMOND, P. M.. 1970. Some problematic MotschuIsky species
of Staphylinidae (Col.). Ent. Mo. Mag. 106: 67-70. HATCH, MELVILLE H.. 1957. The beetles of the Pacific
Northwest. Part II. Staphyliniformia. Univ. Wash. Pubc. Bioi. 16:i-x, 1-384,
37 pl. HERMAN, LEE H., JR. 1970. Phylogeny and
reclassification of the genera of the rove beetle subfamily Oxytelininae of the world
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Natur. Hist. 142:343- 454, 73 figs. |