Phymatura Sahlberg, 1876

Hashizume, Takuto, Yamamoto, Shûhei & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2023, Revision of the Genera Pseudatheta Cameron and Phymatura Sahlberg (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan, Zootaxa 5319 (1), pp. 27-47 : 42

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Genus Phymatura Sahlberg, 1876 View in CoL

[Japanese name: Kinokotsuyakeshi-hanekakushi-zoku]

Phymatura Sahlberg, 1876: 85 View in CoL (original description;

type species: Bolitochara brevicollis Kraatz, 1856 View in CoL , fixed by subsequent designation by Casey, 1906: 264).

Venusa Casey, 1906: 272 View in CoL (original description;

type species: Venusa picta Casey, 1906 , fixed by subsequent designation by Fenyes, 1918: 26); Ashe, 1992: 371 (as a synonym of Phymatura ).

Remarks. The genus Phymatura can be distinguished from the genus Pseudatheta by the following character states: mesoventrite with a longitudinal carina; flabellum of hind wing with at least three setose lobes.

Key to species of the genus Phymatura View in CoL in Japan

1. Body nearly uniformly reddish; eyes smaller, length shorter than 40% length of head................... Ph. russa Assing View in CoL

- Body uniformly darker; eyes larger, length longer than 40% length of head............... Ph. japonica Cameron View in CoL stat. rev.