Batrisini Reitter, 1882

Yin, Zi-Wei, 2022, The Batrisini of Tibet: unveiling an enigmatic ant-loving beetle diversity at Earth’s “ Third Pole ” (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Zootaxa 5111 (1), pp. 1-211 : 8

Tribe Batrisini Reitter, 1882

Chinese common name: 毛唇à甲⁂

Diagnostic characters, an introduction, and a discussion of the tribe can be found in Nomura (1991), Chandler (2001), and Löbl & Kurbatov (2001). Following Jeannel (1954a), Leleup (1970, 1971, 1973) and Chandler (2001), all taxa treated in this paper belong to Batrisina. The other three subtribes, e. g., Ambicocerina Leleup, Leupeliina Jeannel, and Stilipalpina Jeannel, are confined to Africa. Kurbatov (2007) recently found that a broad range of batrisine genera uniquely have four large specialized setae at the middle of the anterior margin of the labrum, in contrast to the presence of zero to two such setae for the other pselaphine supertribes. This is by far the only unambiguous evidence suggesting a monophyletic Batrisitae . In total there are 80 species classified in 13 genera found in Tibet (including the new taxa described in this paper). The genera may be distinguished by using the following key.