Iotarphia Cameron, 1943

Lee, Seung-Gyu, Osborn, Andrew W & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2016, A new species of Iotarphia Cameron (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Tasmanian seacoasts, Australia, ZooKeys 632, pp. 67-74 : 68

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Genus Iotarphia Cameron, 1943

Iotarphia Cameron, 1943: 352. Type species: Iotarphia australis Cameron, 1943.

Psammopora Pace, 2003: 154. Type species: Psammopora delittlei Pace, 2003.

Diagnosis.

Members of Iotarphia are characterized by the combination of the following characters: labrum distinctly emarginate in anterior margin, with ε-sensillum conspicuously robust and blunt at apex; distal lobe of galea and lacinia developed, with many setae; ligula divided into two lobes; mentum emarginate in anterior margin; infraorbital carina absent; mesoventral process blunt at apex, reaching to half of mesocoxa; metaventral process narrow and pointed at apex; tarsal formula 4-5-5; metatarsi long ( Pace 2003; Lee and Ahn 2015).