Microsaurus, Dejean, 1833

Brunke, Adam James, 2023, Review of Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) described from the 1934 expedition by R. Malaise to Myanmar, European Journal of Taxonomy 864, pp. 117-145 : 126

Microsaurus lineage, sensu Brunke et al. (2021)

Members of this large, monophyletic group can be recognized by the combination of: genal puncture present; basal puncture doubled; elytra with evenly distributed punctures or with at least asetose punctures on disc among serial rows of setose punctures. This lineage currently consists of Anthosaurus Smetana, 2015 , Pseudorientis Watanabe, 1970 , Korgella Özdikmen, 2005 , Quedius (Velleius) (Fabricius, 1787) and the large polyphyletic subgenus Quedius (Microsaurus) Stephens, 1829 , inside which all the aforementioned taxa are nested. To avoid treating all members of the Microsaurus lineage as a single, morphologically heterogeneous genus, and to avoid a major priority issue (Velleius Leach, 1819 has priority over Microsaurus Dejean, 1833 ), the major subclades of this lineage should be ranked as genera, pending comprehensive morphological study ( Brunke et al. 2021). One of these taxa is described below.