Doryloxenus Wasmann

Song, Xiao-Bin & Li, Li-Zhen, 2014, Three new species of the myrmecophilous genus Doryloxenus from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 456, pp. 75-83 : 76

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Doryloxenus Wasmann

Doryloxenus Wasmann, 1898: 101 (original description, type species: Doryloxenus cornutus Wasmann, 1898); Jacobson and Kistner 1975: 299 (key, diagnosis).

Remarks.

The genus is most similar to Odontoxenus Kistner in general appearance. It can be easily separated from Odontoxenus by the eyes having no part of their surface on the anterior margin of the head, the quadrate mesocoxal cavity, and the shorter mesosternum ( Jacobson and Kistner 1975). Doryloxenus is also similar to Pygoplanus Kistner by the limuloid shape, but can be distinguished from it by the different shapes of the mandibles and labrum, the maxillary palpus distinctly longer than the setulate galea ( Kistner et al. 2003).