Ocypus (Matidus) italicus (Aragona 1830) ♂ (Coleoptera Staphylinoidea Staphylinidæ Staphylininæ Staphylinini Staphylinina)

Illustration for a comparative ecophylogenetic analysis of local myrmecofaunas, based on r/K selection theory and intra / interspecific parabiosis / lestobiosis, particularly focused on allochthonous and invasive species.

 

[Ocypus Leach 1819: 49 (IT: 29) spp; Staphylinina: 19 gg; Staphylinini: 8 stbb, 157 gg; Staphylininæ: 7 tbb, 299 gg; Staphylinidæ: 33 sff]

 

Same specimen, dorsal habitus.

 

63,650 Staphylinidæ spp classification is ongoing, with some proposing as many as 10 separate ff, but the current favored system is one of 32 sff, ∼167 tbb (some grouped into Stbb) & ∼3,200 gg; ∼400 new spp are being described each year, and some ℮℮ suggest 75% of tropical spp are as yet undescribed.

 

REFERENCES

 

O. Betz & al. 2018: Staphylinidæ biology.

A. Smetana & A. Davies 2000: Staphylinus reclassification.

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