taxonID	type	description	language	source
7F2052693718AD678FB4091106391805.taxon	materials_examined	Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0645233; recordedBy: L. Benavides; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusdiaspartos; Location: country: Colombia; stateProvince: Vaupes; locality: Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Igapo; verbatimLocality: Colombia: Vaupes R. N., Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Igapo, 1 ° 4 ' S 69 ° 31 ' W, 60 m, Malaise, 2 - 22. ix. 2002, l. Benavides Leg. M. 3393; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 1 ° 4 ' S 69 ° 31 ' W; decimalLatitude: - 1.0666667; decimalLongitude: - 69.5166667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise; eventDate: 2002 - 09 - 7 / 22; fieldNumber: M. 3393; Record Level: institutionID: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0628644; recordedBy: L. Benavides; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusdiaspartos; Location: country: Colombia; stateProvince: Vaupes; locality: Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Igapo; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 1 ° 4 ' S 69 ° 31 ' W; decimalLatitude: - 1.0666667; decimalLongitude: - 69.5166667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise; eventDate: 2002 - 11 - 2 / 22; fieldNumber: M. 3397; Record Level: institutionID: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0628643; recordedBy: L. Benavides; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusdiaspartos; Location: country: Colombia; stateProvince: Vaupes; locality: Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Igapo; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 1 ° 4 ' S 69 ° 31 ' W; decimalLatitude: - 1.0666667; decimalLongitude: - 69.5166667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise; eventDate: 2002 - 11 - 2 / 22; fieldNumber: M. 3397; Record Level: institutionID: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: UTCI 000004901; recordedBy: L. Benavides; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; otherCatalogNumbers: 8 c 1 dfaaa-dc 0 c- 4581 - a 3 cb- 3 cce 16 bdd 17 e; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusdiaspartos; Location: country: Colombia; stateProvince: Vaupes; locality: Estacion Biologica Mosiro-Itajura (Caparu) Antigua Cabana; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 1 ° 4 ' S 69 ° 31 ' W; decimalLatitude: - 1.0666667; decimalLongitude: - 69.5166667; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise; eventDate: 2003 - 02 - 01 / 09; fieldNumber: M. 3612; Record Level: institutionID: UTC; collectionID: UTCI; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen; source: http: // symbiota 4. acis. ufl. edu / scan / portal / collections / individual / index. php? occid = 13641794 & clid = 0	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
7F2052693718AD678FB4091106391805.taxon	description	Description Habitus as in Fig. 1 a. Body length 10.3 - 10.8 mm. Coloration of head and pronotum dark metallic purple-blue (Fig. 2 a); antennae and mouthparts orange; elytra and abdomen shiny brown, except intersegmental membranes yellow, sternite VIII and posterior 1 / 4 of sternite VIII orange; legs and pronotal hypomeron orange-brown. Head transverse, width: length ratio = 1.47; surface of epicranium flat; with medium-sized umbilicate punctures throughout surface except medially, distance between punctures varies but typically equals diameter of puncture. Eyes large, length of eyes / length of head = 0.58, distance between eyes as wide as 1.44 times length of eye. Pronotum subquadrate, width: length ratio = 1.13; with scattered large umbilicate punctures, distance between punctures varies but typically equals 0.5 - 1 times diameter of puncture. Mesoscutellum with medium-sized punctures, punctures not confluent. Elytra with large, almost confluent punctures; each row with approximately 11 punctures (measured at middle of elytron). Abdominal tergites III-V with strongly delineated curved (arch-like) carina. Secondary sexual structures. Males with posterior border of sternite VII with deep U-shaped emargination; sternite VIII with deep, broad U-shaped emargination medially; sternite IX with deep V-shaped emargination medially. Females with no obvious secondary sexual structures. Aedeagus as in Fig. 6; paramere divided to near base into two lobes; lobes narrower and subequal in length to median lobe; in dorsal view each lobe converging to rounded apex; in lateral view paramere slightly convex; with peg setae (sensory spinules) as shown in Fig. 6 c, scattered throughout length of two lobes. Median lobe in dorsal view converging to narrow pointed apex; with single narrow dorsal tooth; in lateral view becoming much narrower near apex.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
7F2052693718AD678FB4091106391805.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Scaponopselaphus diaspartos can be distinguished from S. mutator based on the following characters: epicranium flatter and distance between eyes longer in S. diaspartos than in S. mutator; pronotum punctation more dense in S. diaspartos than in S. mutator (Fig. 2); and elytra punctation more sparse in S. diaspartos than in S. mutator (Fig. 1). Additionally, the following characters can be used to distinguish between males of the two species: in S. diaspartos posterior border of sternite VII with deeper median emargination than in S. mutator; in S. diaspartos peg setae are more scattered in the paramere (Fig. 6 c) than the peg setae of S. mutator (Fig. 7 c); and the median lobe of in S. diaspartos is as long as the paramere (Fig. 6 a) while the median lobe in S. mutator is longer than the paramere (Fig. 7 a).	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
7F2052693718AD678FB4091106391805.taxon	etymology	Etymology The specific epithet is derived from the modern Greek word διάσπαρτος (scattered) and refers to the distribution of the peg setae on the parameres. The epithet is a noun in apposition.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
7F2052693718AD678FB4091106391805.taxon	distribution	Distribution Known from Vaupes, Colombia.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
F603EE736E1B9C58C71EC4523F782777.taxon	materials_examined	Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Peru; stateProvince: Loreto; locality: Pebas; verbatimLocality: South America, Brazil / Type / Pebas / Sharp Coll 1905 - 313 / Trigonopselaphusmutator, Type, amazons, D. S. / Holotype Trigonopselaphusmutator Sharp, 1876 det. R. G. Booth 2011; locationRemarks: Sharp listed the specimen as being from Brazil, however, as pointed out by Asenjo et al. 2013, Pebas is in Peru, not Brazil; decimalLatitude: - 3.31666667; decimalLongitude: - 71.85; georeferenceSources: Asenjo et al. 2013; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Alvarenga; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Para; locality: Tucurui; decimalLatitude: - 3.768; decimalLongitude: - 49.673; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 3036; georeferenceProtocol: GEOLocate; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: i. 1979; Record Level: institutionCode: FMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0099817; recordedBy: J. Ashe, R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: French Guiana; locality: Sauel, Mt. Galbao summit; verbatimElevation: 740 m; verbatimCoordinates: 3 ° 37 ' 18 '' N 53 ° 16 ' 42 '' W; decimalLatitude: 3.6216667; decimalLongitude: - 53.2783333; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 1997 - 06 - 05 / 07; fieldNumber: FG 1 AB 97 154; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0094899; recordedBy: J. Ashe, R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: French Guiana; locality: 8.4 km SSE Roura; verbatimElevation: 200 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 40 ' 41 '' N 52 ° 13 ' 26 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.6780556; decimalLongitude: - 52.2238889; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 1997 - 05 - 22 / 23; fieldNumber: FG 1 AB 97 011; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0100262; recordedBy: J. Ashe, R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: French Guiana; locality: Cayenne, 33.5 km S and 8.4 km NW Hwy N 2 on HWY D 5; verbatimElevation: 30 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 48 ' 18 '' N 52 ° 28 ' 41 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.805; decimalLongitude: - 52.4780556; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; verbatimEventDate: 29.05 - 09.06.1997; fieldNumber: FG 1 AB 97 171; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0098930; recordedBy: J. Ashe, R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: French Guiana; locality: Sauel, 7 km N, 1 km NW Les Eaux Claires, along Rue de Belizon trail; verbatimElevation: 280 m; verbatimCoordinates: 3 ° 39 ' 46 '' N 53 ° 13 ' 19 '' W; decimalLatitude: 3.6627778; decimalLongitude: - 53.2219444; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 1997 - 06 - 04 / 08; fieldNumber: FG 1 AB 97 167; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0253154; recordedBy: R. Brooks, Z. Falin; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Guyana; stateProvince: Region 8; locality: Iwokrama Forest, 1 km W Kurupukari, Iwokrama Field Station; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 40 ' 19 '' N 58 ° 41 ' 4 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.67184; decimalLongitude: - 58.684; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2001 - 05 - 26 / 29; fieldNumber: GUY 1 BF 01 064; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0253407; recordedBy: R. Brooks, Z. Falin; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Guyana; stateProvince: Region 8; locality: Iwokrama Forest, Kabocalli Field Station; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 17 ' 4 '' N 58 ° 30 ' 35 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.2844444; decimalLongitude: - 58.509722; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2001 - 06 - 03 / 05; fieldNumber: GUY 1 BF 01 146; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0253421; recordedBy: R. Brooks, Z. Falin; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Guyana; stateProvince: Region 8; locality: Iwokrama Forest, Kabocalli Field Station; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 17 ' 4 '' N 58 ° 30 ' 35 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.2844444; decimalLongitude: - 58.509722; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2001 - 06 - 03 / 05; fieldNumber: GUY 1 BF 01 146; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0253433; recordedBy: R. Brooks, Z. Falin; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Guyana; stateProvince: Region 8; locality: Iwokrama Forest, Kabocalli Field Station; verbatimElevation: 60 m; verbatimCoordinates: 4 ° 17 ' 4 '' N 58 ° 30 ' 35 '' W; decimalLatitude: 4.2844444; decimalLongitude: - 58.509722; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2001 - 06 - 03 / 05; fieldNumber: GUY 1 BF 01 146; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: UTCI 000004900; recordedBy: Larsen, Short; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; otherCatalogNumbers: 3 a 0568 e 7 - eb 54 - 45 de-b 52 c-a 12944 f 03 a 7 f, SC 230; associatedSequences: KF 178800, KF 178770, KF 178755, KF 178741, KF 178725; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Suriname; stateProvince: Sipaliwini; locality: Camp 1: on Kutari River; verbatimElevation: 228 m; decimalLatitude: 2.17535; decimalLongitude: - 56.7874; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2010 - 08 - 19 / 24; fieldNumber: SR 10 - 0819 - TN 1; eventRemarks: 2010 CI-RAP Survey; Record Level: institutionCode: UTC; collectionCode: UTCI; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen; source: http: // symbiota 4. acis. ufl. edu / scan / portal / collections / individual / index. php? occid = 13640919 & clid = 0 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0349335; recordedBy: Larsen, Short; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; otherCatalogNumbers: SC 231; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Suriname; stateProvince: Sipaliwini; locality: Camp 2: on Sipaliwini River; verbatimElevation: 210 m; decimalLatitude: 2.182883; decimalLongitude: - 56.78725; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; verbatimEventDate: 27. viii. - 1. ix. 2010; fieldNumber: SR 10 - 0827 - TN 2; eventRemarks: 2010 CI-RAP Survey; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0349336; recordedBy: Larsen, Short; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphusmutator; Location: country: Suriname; stateProvince: Sipaliwini; locality: Camp 1: on Kutari River; verbatimElevation: 228 m; decimalLatitude: 2.17535; decimalLongitude: - 56.7874; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2010 - 08 - 19 / 24; fieldNumber: SR 10 - 0819 - TN 1; eventRemarks: 2010 CI-RAP Survey; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
F603EE736E1B9C58C71EC4523F782777.taxon	description	Description Habitus as in Fig. 1 b. Body length 10.1 - 10.5 mm. Coloration of head and pronotum metallic blue, green or blue-green (Fig. 2 b); antennae and mouthparts orange, except antennomeres 4 - 11 covered with darker brown setae; elytra and abdomen light brown to brown, except intersegmental membranes yellow, sternite VIII and posterior 1 / 3 of sternite VIII orange; legs and pronotal hypomeron orange to brown. Head transverse, width: length ratio = 1.38; surface of epicranium flat to slightly convex; with medium-sized umbilicate punctures throughout the surface except medially, distance between punctures varies but typically equals 1 - 2 times of puncture. Eyes large, length of eyes / length of head = 0.68, distance between eyes as wide as 1.28 times length of eye. Pronotum subquadrate, width: length ratio = 1.10; with scattered large umbilicate punctures, distance between punctures varies but typically equals diameter of puncture. Mesoscutellum with confluent medium-sized punctures. Elytra with large, confluent punctures; each row with approximately 15 punctures (measured at middle of elytron). Abdominal tergites III-V with weakly delineated curved (arch-like) carina. Secondary sexual structures (Fig. 5 c). Males with posterior border of sternite VII with shallow U-shaped emargination; sternite VIII with deep [but not as deep as in S. diaspartos], broad U-shaped emargination medially; sternite IX with shallow V-shaped emargination medially. Females with no obvious secondary sexual structures. Aedeagus as in Fig. 7; parameres divided to base into two lobes; lobes narrower and shorter than median lobe; in dorsal view each lobe converging to rounded apex; in lateral view paramere slightly convex; with peg setae (sensory spinules) as shown in Fig. 7 c, concentrated near apex of lobes. Median lobe in dorsal view converging to broad pointed apex; with wide bicuspid dorsal tooth; in lateral view becoming narrower near apex.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
F603EE736E1B9C58C71EC4523F782777.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis See the Diagnosis of S. diaspartos.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
F603EE736E1B9C58C71EC4523F782777.taxon	distribution	Distribution Known from the state of Para in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, the department of Loreto in Peru and from Suriname	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
19941CE44AD082347BBF9248224F4843.taxon	description	Description Redescription: Habitus as in Fig. 1, body medium sized, 10.1 - 10.8 mm in total length. Color of head and pronotum metallic blue, green or purple blue; elytra light brown to brown; ventral surface of body light brown to brown. Mouthparts orange; antenna orange to brown; abdomen light brown to brown exceptVIII and posterior part of VII orange. Head transverse (Figs 2, 4 a), with medium-sized setose punctures and distinctive microsculpture (Fig. 4 a) in microlines; epicranium shining, with large prominent macrosetae along border of head. Clypeus emarginate; anteclypeus expanded, well developed. Eyes large, prominent, occupying more than 3 / 4 of lateral margins of head. Ventral surface of head with transverse microsculpture; postoccipital suture and ventral basal ridge present; infraorbital ridge pronounced posteriorly; postmandiblular ridge present, prominent, extending from near mandible to posterior border of head; gular sutures separated throughout length with narrowest point between them near mid-length; nuchal depression prominent forming well defined neck; neck with microsculpture and few micropunctures. Antenna (Fig. 4 b). Antennomeres 1 - 3 with multiple rows of macrosetae; antennomeres 4 - 11 with few macrosetae but covered with microtrichia; antennomeres 1 - 3 longer than wide; antennomere 4 quadrate; antennomeres 5 - 10 subquadrate to transverse, just slightly asymmetrical, becoming wider towards antennomere 10; antennomere 11 longer than wide. Mouthparts. Labrum (Fig. 4 a) medially incised. Mandibles as in Fig. 3 a, b; curved, moderately elongate, with short tooth medially; left and right mandibles nearly symmetrical; with lateral fold extending from condyle to tooth; prostheca setose. Maxilla as in Fig. 3 d; galea and lacinia densely setose; maxillary palpi 4 - segmented; P 1 small, about 1 / 3 as long as P 2; P 2 curved, elongate, subequal in length to P 3; P 2 - P 3 with large setae apically; P 4 elongate, slightly longer than P 3. Labium as in Fig. 3 c; mentum with one long and one shorter anterolateral setae at each end. Labial palpi 3 - segmented; with transverse microsculpture; P 1 longer than P 2; P 2 trapezoidal; both P 1 and P 2 with several long setae; P 3 securiform; P 3 apex wide and with 4 - 5 rows of sensory setae. Pronotum subquadrate (Fig. 2); hypomeron expanded (Fig. 4 c), with microsculpture; superior and inferior marginal lines of hypomeron separate throughout their lengths; superior line fully visible from above, extending around anterolateral margin of pronotum and contacting inferior line at neck fossa; no portion of dorsum of pronotum visible from below; without postcoxal process. Surface of pronotum shining, with scattered large setose punctures and microsculpture made of microlines (similar to but not as dense as on head); punctures on pronotum denser near anterolateral corners; margins of pronotum with several large setae. Mesoscutellum with dense polygon-shaped microsculpture and multiple rows of small punctures. Basisternum (Fig. 4 c) with dense polygon-shaped microsculpture and weak carina; anterior marginal depression present; furcasternum with medial carina pointed vertically; furcasternum without microsculpture. Elytra subequal to pronotum; with confluent or almost confluent punctures and large setae; with micropunctures but no other microsculpture; elytra appearing shining. Hind wings fully developed. Mesoventrite (Fig. 4 d) with anterior margin forming " lip "; with dense polygon-shaped microsculpture and few punctures along edges; without median carina. Metaventrite (Fig. 4 d) with dense uniform medium-sized punctures; metaventral process small, rounded, triangular. Legs. Tarsal segmentation 5 - 5 - 5; pro- and mesofemur in both sexes with ctenidium ventrally and proximally; meso- and metatibia with multiple rows of spurs; protibia without multiple rows of spurs but with single row of spurs apically. Protarsus (Fig. 5 d) enlarged in both sexes, with spatulate setae ventrally; mesotarsus (Fig. 5 e) not enlarged except tarsomere 1 in males twice as wide as other mesotarsomeres and with spatulate setae ventrally; metatarsus not enlarged. Empodium with two small setae. Abdomen with paired protergal glands present; expanding from segment III to segment V (widest) and then becoming narrower towards segment VIII. Abdominal tergites III-V (Fig. 5 a) with tergal basal carina and curved (arch-like) carina. Tergites and sternites with distinctive microsculpture (Fig. 5 a, b) on anterolateral corners, sometimes expanded medially. Males with secondary sexual structures of sternites VII-IX (Fig. 5 c): sternite VII with round porose structure anteriorly and U-shaped emargination posteriorly; sternite VIII with deep U-shaped emargination posteriorly; sternite IX with V-shaped emargination. Male and Female Genitalia. Aedeagus typical of Xanthopygina (Figs 6, 7); with long median lobe and paramere divided into two lobes. Paramere with peg setae and short apical setae. Spermatheca not sclerotized.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
19941CE44AD082347BBF9248224F4843.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Scaponopselaphus can be distinguished from all other genera in Xanthopygina by the combination of the following characters: (1) Head with distinctive microsculpture (Fig. 4 a); (2) labial palpomere 3 (P 3) securiform (Fig. 3 c); (3) pronotum with broad and convex lateral margins (Fig. 2); (4) mesotarsomere 1 in males with spatulate setae [unknown in other Xanthopygina] (Fig. 5 e); (5) tergites III-V with curved (arch-like) carina (Fig. 5 a); and (6) sternite VII in males with small porose structure (Fig. 5 c). Male specimens in Scaponopselaphus can always be easily identified by the spatulate state on mesotarsomere 1, but some species in Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz, Styngetus Sharp, Xenopygus Bernhauer may look superficially like Scaponopselaphus. However, these taxa do not have securiform labial P 3 and their pronotum is not convex. Perhaps the most confusing scenario can be if someone has unsorted female specimens of Scaponopselaphus, Torobus and Zackfalinus Chatzimanolis; all these taxa have securiform labial P 3 and somewhat similar head. However, Scaponopselaphus can be distinguished from these two genera based on the microsculpture of the head and the shape of the pronotum.	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
19941CE44AD082347BBF9248224F4843.taxon	distribution	Distribution Known from the state of Para in Brazil, the department of Vaupes in Colombia, the province of Sucumbios in Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, the departments of Loreto and Madre de Dios in Peru and from Suriname (Fig. 8).	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
A88F2D9BD45B5E6A0614F6003CBDEF06.taxon	materials_examined	Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0210544; recordedBy: R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphus sp.; Location: country: Peru; stateProvince: Madre de Dios; locality: Pakitza Biological Station, Castanal Trail, Reserved zone, Manu National Park; verbatimElevation: 317 m; verbatimCoordinates: 11 ° 56 ' 41 '' S 71 ° 17 ' 0 '' W; decimalLatitude: - 11.9447222; decimalLongitude: - 71.2833333; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 2000 - 10 - 15 / 16; fieldNumber: PERU 1 B 00 013; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SM 0153382; recordedBy: R. Brooks; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Scaponopselaphus sp.; Location: country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Sucumbios; locality: Sacha Lodge; verbatimElevation: 270 m; verbatimCoordinates: 0 ° 28 ' 14 '' S 76 ° 27 ' 35 '' W; decimalLatitude: - 0.4705556; decimalLongitude: - 76.4597222; georeferenceProtocol: label; Identification: identifiedBy: Stylianos Chatzimanolis; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; eventDate: 1999 - 03 - 21 / 24; fieldNumber: ECU 1 B 99 047; Record Level: institutionCode: SEMC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen	en	Chatzimanolis, Stylianos (2015): A review of the genus Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: 4735, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4735
