Meotica Mulsant & Rey, 1873
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Meotica Mulsant & Rey, 1873 View in CoL
Meotica Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 174 View in CoL (Type species: Meotica parasita Mulsant & Rey, 1873 View in CoL , by subsequent designation (Blackwelder 1952)).
Sipaliella Casey, 1911: 159 (Type species: Sipalia filaria Casey, 1911 , by monotypy) (as subgenus of Sipalia Mulsant & Rey, 1853 ), syn. nov.
Sipaliella: Fenyes, 1920: 252 (as subgenus of Sipalia ).
Sipaliella: Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 603 (as subgenus of Sipalia ).
Sipaliella: Blackwelder, 1952 : (as subgenus of Evanystes Gistel, 1856 View in CoL ).
Sipaliella: Seevers, 1978: 129 (as valid genus in subtribe Geostibina Seevers, 1978).
Sipaliella: Ashe in Newton, Thayer, Ashe & Chandler, 2000: 371 (as valid genus in subtribe Geostibina Seevers, 1978).
Because Sipalia filaria Casey, 1911 , the type species of Sipaliella , is conspecific with Meotica pallens (Redtenbacher) View in CoL (see below), a species known from Europe, the name Sipaliella is here placed in synonymy with Meotica View in CoL . Meotica pallens View in CoL is only superficially similar to Geostiba View in CoL in having small eyes and short elytra and belongs to a different tribe ( Oxypodini Thomson, 1859 View in CoL ).
Two other European species of Meotica View in CoL recorded in North America are M. exilis View in CoL (Knoch in Gravenhorst, 1806) ( Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1926; Seevers 1978) and M. apicalis G.Benick, 1953 ( Muona 1984) View in CoL . The latter record is not reflected in the recently published guide to North American staphylinids ( Newton et al. 2000). Because M. exilis View in CoL had been recorded in North America before the revision of Meotica View in CoL was published ( Muona 1991), the record requires reconfirmation.
The species of Meotica have the tarsal formula 555 and the genus appears in Key B for the aleocharine genera by Ashe (Newton et al. 2000). The entry for Sipaliella should be deleted from Key J, and the couplets 26 and 27 can be replaced by the following single couplet:
26(21) Elytra distinctly longer than pronotum ................................................................. 28 – Elytra subequal to, or shorter than pronotum ....................................................... 29
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Meotica Mulsant & Rey, 1873
Gusarov, Vladimir I. 2002 |
Sipaliella:
Newton 2000: 371 |
Sipaliella:
Seevers 1978: 129 |
Sipaliella:
Bernhauer 1926: 603 |
Sipaliella:
Fenyes 1920: 252 |
Sipaliella
Casey 1911: 159 |
Meotica
Mulsant 1873: 174 |