Oxypodini Thomson 1859
Creators: name: Klimaszewski, Jan
name: Savard, Karine
name: Pelletier, Georges
name: Webster, Reginald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae

description: <b>Tribe Oxypodini Thomson, 1859</b> Oxypodides Thomson 1859: 36 (ICZN, 1957: Name No. 150). Oxypodini: Seevers 1978: 14; Newton and Thayer 1992: 53; Ashe 2001: 360; Klimaszewski and Winchester 2002: 54; Klimaszewski and Pelletier 2004: 447; Klimaszewski <i>et al.</i> 2005: 9. Type genus: <i>Oxypoda</i> Mannerheim 1830: 69 (ICZN, 1957: Name No. 1078). <b>Diagnosis</b> Adults. Structurally diverse group of aleocharine beetles that may be recognized by the following combination of characters: tarsal formula usually 5-5-5 but in some taxa 4-5-5 or 4-4-4, mouthparts generalized, mesocoxae moderately to narrowly separated and with slender and often sharply pointed mesoventral process; acetabula usually margined; pronotal hypomera not visible laterally in some genera (e.g. <i>Oxypoda</i> and close allies); abdominal tergite 9 narrowly subdivided at base (Seevers 1978); median lobe of aedeagus with an elongate compressor plate and without an “athetine bridge” (Seevers 1978); paramerite usually with elongate apical lobe and striated velum. There are 48 genera in 5 subtribes in North America (Ashe 2001) and 24 genera in 3 subtribes in Canada and Alaska (Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007). At the present time the placement of the genus <i>Gnypeta</i> in the tribe Oxypodini should be considered as a tentative arrangement due to existing controversy between different authors and the lack of comprehensive analysis at the tribal level (see discussion under Phylogenetic affiliations).
description: Published as part of <i>Klimaszewski, Jan, Savard, Karine, Pelletier, Georges &amp; Webster, Reginald, 2008, Species review of the genus Gnypeta Thomson from Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): systematics, bionomics and distribution, pp. 11-84 in ZooKeys 2 (2)</i> on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/576410
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