Checklist of the Intertidal Aleocharines
of America North of Mexico

(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)


Kee-Jeong Ahn

DRAFT COPY

(This "Checklist of the Intertidal Aleocharines of America North of Mexico" is an
UNREVIEWED DRAFT provided for INFORMATION ONLY. It is NOT PUBLISHED,
and should not be cited, quoted or referenced in published papers
.)

July 1996


Tribe Aleocharini
Genus Aleochara Gravenhorst, 1802
 
Fungicola Zetterstedt, 1840

Mecorhopalus Solier, 1849
Copiata des Gozis, 1886
Opiochara Bernhauer, 1901
curtidens Klimaszewski, 1984 [U.S.A., Canada]
littoralis (Maklin, 1853) [U.S.A., Canada]
 
Homalota littoralis Maklin, 1853

Emplenota maritima Casey, 1884
Polistoma arenaria Casey, 1893
Emplenota quadrifer Casey, 1906
Emplenota trilimbata Casey, 1906
Emplenota longiceps Casey, 1911
pacifica (Casey, 1893) [U.S.A., Canada, Mexico (Baja California)]
 
Polistoma pacifica Casey, 1893
sulcicollis Mannerheim, 1843 [Pacific coast of north America]
 
Eucharina cylindrella Casey, 1906

Eucharina debilicornis Casey, 1906
Eucharina rugosa Casey, 1906
Eucharina tibialis Casey, 1906
Tribe Myllaenini
Genus Myllaena Erichson, 1837
 
Centroglossa Mathews, 1838
Moore collected an unidentified species form Mexico (Moore and Legner, 1976).

Genus Bryothinusa Casey, 1904
catalinae Casey, 1904 [U.S.A.]
rothi Moore and Legner, 1975 [Mexico]

Genus Rothium Moore and Legner, 1977
giulianii Moore, 1978 [Mexico (Sinaloa, Guerrero)]
pallidus Ahn and Ashe, manuscript name [Mexico (Acapulco)]
sonorensis Moore and Legner, 1977 [Mexico (Sonora)]

Tribe Diglottini
Genus Diglotta Champion, 1887

legneri Moore and Orth, 1979 [U.S.A. (California)]
littoralis (Horn, 1871) [U.S.A. (New Jersey)]
 
Phytosus littoralis Horn, 1871
pacifica Fenyes, 1921 [U.S.A., Mexico (Baja California)]
Tribe Athetini
Genus Atheta

12 species have been described from the intertidal habitat (Moore and Legner, 1976).

Genus Pontomalota Casey, 1885
opaca (LeConte, 1863) [U.S.A., Canada, Mexico (Baja California)]

 
Phytosus opaca LeConte, 1863

Pontomalota californica Casey, 1885
Pontomalota nigriceps Casey, 1885
Pontomalota luctuosa Casey, 1911
Pontomalota bakeri Bernhauer, 1912
terminalia Ahn and Ashe, 1992 [U.S.A. (California)]

Genus Tarphiota Casey, 1893
fucicola (Maklin, 1852) [U.S.A., Canada]

 
Tachyusa fucicola Maklin, 1852

Homalota fucicola Maklin, 1853
Tarphiota debilicollis Casey, 1910
Tarphiota pallidipes Casey, 1893
geniculata (Maklin, 1852) [U.S.A., Canada]
 
Homalota geniculata Maklin, 1853

Tarphiota hirsutula Casey, 1910
Tarphiota iota Casey, 1910
Tarphiota insolita Casey, 1910
Tarphiota litorina Casey, 1910
Tarphiota seditiosa Casey, 1910


Genus Thinusa Casey, 1893
fletcheri Casey, 1906 [U.S.A., Canada]

 
Thinusa divergens Casey, 1911

Thinusa nigra Casey, 1911
Thinusa robustula Casey, 1911
maritima (Casey, 1885) [U.S.A., Canada, Mexico (Baja California)]
 
Phytosus maritima Casey, 1885

Thinusa obscura Casey, 1906
Tribe Falagriini
Genus Bryobiota Casey, 1893

bicolor (Casey, 1893) [U.S.A., Canada, Mexico (Baja California)]
 
Phytosus bicolor Casey, 1885

Myrmecopora californica Scheerpeltz, 1965
giulianii (Moore, 1978) [U.S.A. (Washington)]
 
Salinamexus giulianii Moore, 1978
Tribe Homalotini
Genus Heterota Mulsant and Rey, 1873

plumbea (Waterhouse, 1858) [U.S.A. (Florida)]

Genus Cameronium Koch, 1936
sonorensis Moore, 1964 [Mexico (Sonora)]

Genus Thinobiosus Moore and Legner, 1977
salinus Moore and Legner, 1977 [Mexico (Sonora)]

Tribe Liparocephalini
Genus Salinamexus Moore and Legner, 1977
Biophytosus Moore and Legner, 1977
browni Moore and Legner, 1977 [Mexico (Sonora)]
densus Moore, 1978 [Mexico (Sonora)]
reticulatus (Moore and Legner, 1977) [Mexico (Sonora)]

Genus Amblopusa Casey, 1893

boreorhadinus Sawada, 1991
alaskana Ahn and Ashe, 1996 [U.S.A. (Alaska)]
brevipes Casey, 1893 [U.S.A. (Alaska), Canada]
 
Amblopusa pallida Casey, 1911

Boreorhadinus pacificus Sawada, 1991


Genus Paramblopusa Ahn and Ashe, 1996
borealis (Casey), 1906 [U.S.A., Canada]

Genus Liparocephalus Maklin, 1853
brevipennis Maklin, 1853 [U.S.A. (Alaska)]
cordicollis LeConte, 1880 [U.S.A., Canada]

Genus Diaulota Casey, 1893

 
Genoplectes Sawada, 1955
alaskana Ahn, 1996 [U.S.A. (Alaska)]
aokii Sawada, 1971 [U.S.A. (Alaska)]
densissima Casey, 1893 [U.S.A. (Alaska - California), Canada]
 
Diaulota insolita Casey, 1893
fulviventris Moore, 1956 [U.S.A.(California), Mexico (Baja California)]
harteri Moore, 1956 [U.S.A. (California), Mexico (Baja California)]
 
Diaulota megacephala Moore, 1956
vandykei Moore, 1956 [U.S.A. (California)]
 

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