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Porus Westwood, 1840

Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, Zootaxa 3075, pp. 1-151 : 72-73

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 1175­5334

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scientific name

 Porus Westwood
status

 

Porus Westwood View in CoL

Porus Westwood, 1840a: 135 View in CoL [= Westwood, 1840b: lv]. Type species: Porus ochraceus Westwood View in CoL , by monotypy Porus Westwood View in CoL : Cameron, 1939f: 549 (redescription)

bissauensis Pace, 1988a: 23 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Bissorã) Distribution: Guinea Bissau congoensis Bernhauer, 1932c: 172 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Sankuru, Komi) Distribution: Dem. Rep. Congo cupulifer Fauvel, 1899: 36 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Sénégal) Distribution: Senegal discalis Pace, 1999b: 205 View in CoL ( Porus View in CoL ; TL: Namibia, East Caprivi, Katima Mulilo) Distribution: Namibia longicollis Fauvel, 1899: 37 ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Delagoa Bay) Distribution: Mozambique nakuruensis Pace, 1996b: 240 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Kenya, Nakuru Mau Escarp, près Enangiperi, 2700 m) Distribution:

Kenya natalensis Fauvel, 1899: 37 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Natal & Damara) Distribution: Rep. South Africa (Natal), Angola ochraceus Westwood, 1840a: 135 View in CoL [= Westwood, 1840b: lv] ( Porus, TL View in CoL : in Montibus Himalayae) Distribution:

Nepal, India (Sikkim /Darjiling), Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Senegal, Mozambique, Namibia,

Botswana

= ferrugineus Kraatz, 1857a: 22 ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Cordofan & Sudan) as subspecies, Scheerpeltz, 1974b: 38; as valid species without comment, Pace, 2008f: 369; synonymy in Smetana, 2004: 460 ruandensis Pace, 1996b: 240 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Rwanda, Rangiro, 1800 m) Distribution: Rwanda umtaliensis Pace, 1996b: 243 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : Rhodésie, Umtali) Distribution: Zimbabwe parcus Last, 1977a: 195 View in CoL ( Porus, TL View in CoL : not cited; attributed to Fauvel, but no such name found) Distribution:

Namibia; NOMEN NUDUM

Bernhauer, M. (1932 c) Neue Kurzflugler aus dem belgischen Kongostaate. 29. Beitrag zur afrikanischen Fauna. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 22, 140 - 174.

Cameron, M. (1939 f) Coleoptera, Staphylinidae. - Vol. IV. Parts I & II. In: Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Ed. R. B. S. Sewell. Taylor & Francis, London. xviii + 691 pp., pls. 1 - 3.

Fauvel, A. (1899) In: A. Raffray & A. Fauvel, Genres et especes de Staphylinides nouveaux d'Afrique. Revue d'Entomologie 18, 1 - 44.

Kraatz, G. (1857 a) Genera aleocharinorum illustrata. Linnaea Entomologica, 11, 1 - 43, pls. 1 - 2.

Last, H. R. (1977 a) A report on the African Zyras and closely related material in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 53 (2), 187 - 198.

Pace, R. (1988 a) Aleocharinae della Guinea-Bissau (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, 99, 1 - 36.

Pace, R. (1996 b) Aleocharinae della sottoregione Africana Orientale al Museo di Ginevra (Coleoptera Staphylinidae) Parte III (conclusione). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 103 (1), 195 - 258.

Pace, R. (1999 b) Aleocharinae della Namibia raccolte dalla spedizione entomologica Namibia 1992 del Museo di Storia Naturale di Berlino (Coleoptera Staphylinidae). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 77, 161 - 212.

Pace, R. (2008 f) Aleocharinae delle Regione Etiopica al Naturkundemuseum di Erfurt (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 58 (2), 357 - 397.

Scheerpeltz, O. (1974 b) Coleoptera aus Nordostafrika, Staphylinidae. Acta Entomologica Fennica, 31, 1 - 49.

Smetana, A. (2004) Staphylinidae, subfamily Aleocharinae, pp. 353 - 494. In: Lobl, I. & SMETANA, A. (editors): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. II. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 942 pp.

Westwood, J. O. (1840 a) Descriptions of insects, pp. 129 - 136. In: F. W. Hope, On the entomology of the Himalayas and of India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 12, 105 - 136.

Westwood, J. O. (1840 b) Descriptions of insects figured in plates 9 and 10, pp. liii - lv, pls. 9 - 10. In: Royle, J. F. (ed.). Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere. Vol. I; Vol. II - Plates. W. H. Allen and Co., London. lxxxii + 472 pp., 97 pls.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Specimens