Tympanophorus Nordmann 1837
Creators: name: Janák, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tympanophorus

description: Key to genera of the Tympanophorus lineage
(based on Brunke et al. 2017, modified)
1 Apical labial palpomere slender, fusiform............................................................................................... Tolmerinus Bernhauer, 1923, Diatrechus Bernhauer, 1911, Paradiatrechus Cameron, 1944
- Apical labial palpomere distinctly dilated apically and almost always securiform (Figs. 4–6 and Figs. 4E, F in Brunke et al. 2017)............................................................................................... 2
2 Apical labial palpomere laterally flattened with narrow apical face (Fig. 4E in Brunke et al. 2017)..................... 3
- Apical labial palpomere not laterally flattened, with broad apical face (Figs. 4–6)................................... 4
3 Labrum expanded, lobes less than twice as wide as long (Fig. 4E in Brunke et al. 2017); apical maxillary palpomere weakly to moderately expanded subapically or apically, apex never pointed (Fig. 4B, E in Brunke et al. 2017); pronotum punctate across entire disc.................................................................... Barygnathus Bernhauer, 1902
- Labrum not expanded, lobes distinctly more than twice as wide as long (as in Figs. 2C, 4F in Brunke et al. 2017); apical maxillary palpomere evenly converging posteriad to pointed apex (Fig. 4A in Brunke et al. 2017); pronotum with median impunctate line......................................................................... Amelinus Bernhauer, 1915
4 Apical maxillary palpomere fusiform, not conspicuously constricted apically, at least twice as long as previous segment (Fig. 4C in Brunke et al. 2017, Fig. 6).......................................................................... 5
- Apical maxillary palpomere conspicuously constricted apically, at most slightly longer than previous segment (Figs. 4D, F in Brunke et al. 2017).................................................................................... 7
5 Head with temples nearly straight and strongly converging to neck; body with areas of long golden pubescence (Fig. 32 in Schillhammer, 2002); male unknown.................................................. Bombylodes Fauvel, 1904
- Head with temples rounded or only slightly converging to neck (Fig. 3B in Brunke et al. 2017, Figs. 1–3); body without conspicuous areas of golden pubescence....................................................................... 6
6 Paramere with long apex and distinct expansion at midlength (Figs. 1 –19 in Schillhammer 2002)... Pammegus Fauvel, 1895
- Paramere short and broad (Figs. 11–14)...................................................... Janalia gen. nov.
7 Ventral surface of head with gular setae approximate (Fig. 4G in Brunke et al. 2017); prosternum not projected ventrad.................................................................................. Trigonopalpus Cameron, 1951
- Ventral surface of head with gular setae distant (Fig. 4H in Brunke et al. 2017); pronotum projected ventrad......................................................................................... Tympanophorus Nordmann, 1837
description: Published as part of Janák, Jiří, 2018, A new genus of the Tympanophorus lineage of the subtribe Anisolinina from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini), pp. 293-299 in Zootaxa 4461 (2) on page 295, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/1460010