Dioxeuta Sharp

Song, Xiao-Bin & Li, Li-Zhen, 2014, Descriptions of three new species of the Termitophilous tribe Termitopaediini in China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 424, pp. 91-100 : 92

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Dioxeuta Sharp

Dioxeuta Sharp, 1899: 205 (original description, type species: Dioxeuta microps Sharp, 1899); Blackwelder 1952: 128 (discussion of type species); Seevers 1957: 217 (redescription, placed in tribe Termitopaediini ); Kistner 1968: 169 (redescription, key to species); Kistner 2001: 17 (redescription; key to species).

Jacobsonella Silvestri, 1911: 59 (original description, type species: Jacobsonella termitobia Silvestri, 1911); Blackwelder 1952: 206 (discussion of type species); Seevers 1957: 217 (synonymized with Dioxeuta ).

Remarks.

The genus is similar to Neodioxeuta Seevers and Termitopulex Fauvel by the shape of head and thorax. It can be easily separated from Neodioxeuta by the abdomen only slightly physogastric and the abdominal segment II represented by a reduced tergite only. It can be distinguished from Termitopulex by the outer paratergites about twice the width of the inner paratergites ( Kistner 1968, 2001).