Articerodes Raffray, 1890

Hlaváč, Peter & Baňař, Petr, 2020, New species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Malawi and South Africa, Zootaxa 4877 (3), pp. 587-597 : 593

Articerodes Raffray, 1890

Articerodes Raffray, 1890: 164 .

Type species: Articerus syriacus Saulcy , by monotypy.

Articerodes Raffray : Raffray, 1893: 502; Jeannel, 1949: 33 (description); Jeannel, 1951: 21; Jeannel, 1959: 702, 710 (also as Pararticerus ); Célis, 1974: 3 (diagnosis); Nomura, 2001: 343 (diagnosis, key to related genera of Japan, key to species of Japan); Nomura, Sakchoowong & Chanpaisaeng, 2008: 2 (key to East and Southeast Asian species).

Diagnosis. Body reddish-brown. Length 1.35–2.50 mm. Head longer than wide, lacking frontal fovea, with vertexal foveae, rostrum pointed, temples longer than length of eyes, eyes located in middle of head, head capsule separated from neck by well-defined occipital carina. Antennae with 4 antennomeres, scape minuscule, completely hidden in antennal cavity, dorsally invisible; pedicel slightly transverse, subcylindrical, slightly larger than antennomere III, terminal antennomere with setose cavity in truncate apex, long, at least 3 times as long as wide. Pronotum with basal and lateral antebasal fovea and more or less defined longitudinal sulcus. Elytra lacking basal foveae, posterior margin with trichomes opposite trichomes on composite tergite, with large and deep impression opposite to basal basin on composite tergite. Composite tergite shiny, with some short, erect, sparse setae, with small to large basal basin, with three visible paratergites. Legs stout, males with mesofemora and mesotibiae bearing spurs.

Sexual dimorphism. Females slightly larger, lacking spurs on legs.

Distribution. The genus has ten species with one species, Articerodes syriacus (Saulcy, 1865) , described from Ethiopia and widespread in the eastern part of the western Palaearctic ( Greece (Crete), Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan), and it has been recently recorded from Socotra Island ( Hlaváč & Baňař, 2014). Two further species occur in Japan, and six in the Oriental region (three in Thai-land, and one each from Vietnam, India and Sumatra; Nomura, Sakchoowong & Chanpaisaeng, 2008; Nomura, 2001). The discovery of A. jaloszynskii in The Republic of South Africa extends the range of the genus to the south of the continent.