Proteininae (lat.) - subfamily of staphylinid beetles . Meet around the world. Over 200 species.
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| Proteininae Erichson, 1839 |
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Distribution
Most modern species ( Proteinini ) in the Northern Hemisphere. However, most modern tribes (the remaining 4 out of 5) are found in the Southern Hemisphere (all 15 of them are found in Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand).
Description
The sizes are small (less than 3 mm), the body is wide, the proxies and metacoxes are transverse, wide, subconical. Tarsal formula (number of paw segments): 5-5-5 (in some genera in the Southern Hemisphere, 4-4-4). They live in fallen leaves, rotting mushrooms, carrion and excrement, although species of the tribe Nesoneini ( New Zealand and New Caledonia ) were found in decaying wood and under the bark of trees. In general, most species are believed to be saprophages, although some of them are possibly mycophages. Representatives of the tribe Anepiini , presumably, predators [1] [2] .
Systematics
About 230 species in 6 tribes and 11 genera [1] [2] . From the Mesozoic Burmese amber (99 Ma), the species of the mycophagous beetle Vetuproteinus cretaceus Cai, Newton & Thayer, 2016 (isolated in a separate tribe Vetuproteinini), the oldest representative of the entire subfamily, was described [3] .
- Tribe Anepiini
- Anepius
- Eupsorus
- Tribe Austrorhysini
- Austrorhysus
- Megarthroides
- Tribe Nesoneini
- Nesoneus
- Paranesoneus
- Tribe Proteinini
- Megarthrus Curtis, 1829
- Megarthrus depressus (Paykull, 1789)
- Megarthrus strandi Scheerpeltz, 1931
- Megarthrus nigrinus J. Sahlberg, 1876
- Megarthrus sinuatocollis (Lacordaire, 1835)
- Megarthrus denticollis (Beack, 1817)
- Megarthrus nitidulus Kraatiz, 1858
- Megarthrus fennicus Lahtinen, 1938
- Metopsia Wollaston, 1854
- Metopsia similis Zerche, 1998
- Proteinus Latreille, 1796
- Proteinus brachypterus (Fabricius, 1792)
- Proteinus crenulatus Pandelle, 1867
- Proteinus altaicus Reitter, 1905
- Proteinus hyperboreus Muona, 1978
- Proteinus macropterus (Gravenhorst, 1806)
- Proteinus atomarius Erichson, 1840
- Megarthrus Curtis, 1829
- Triba Silphotelini
- Alloproteinus
- Silphotelus
- Triba Vetuproteinini Cai, Newton & Thayer, 2016
- Vetuproteinus Cai, Newton & Thayer, 2016
- Vetuproteinus cretaceus Cai, Newton & Thayer, 2016 [3] .
- Vetuproteinus Cai, Newton & Thayer, 2016
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Herman, LH 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical sketches, and omaliine group . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History , ( 265 ): 1-650.
- ↑ 1 2 Cai C, Newton AF, Thayer MK, Leschen RAB, Huang D. (2016). Specialized proteinine rove beetles shed light on insect-fungal associations in the Cretaceous. - Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20161439 (1-8). http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1439
Literature
- Herman, LH 2001 : Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical sketches, and omaliine group . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History , ( 265 ): 1-650.
- Steel, WO 1966 : A revision of the staphylinid subfamily Proteininae (Coleoptera) I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 118: 285-311. doi: 10.1111 / j.1365-2311.1966.tb00839.x