Philhygra Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Lee, Seung-Gyu & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2012, A taxonomic review of Korean species of the genus Philhygra Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 3483, pp. 58-70 : 58

Philhygra Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Type species. Microdota (Philhygra) perdubia Mulsant & Rey, 1873a . Fixed by Blackwelder, 1952: 300.

Diagnosis. Members of Philhygra can be distinguished from the other athetine genera by combination of following characters: body subparallel-sided, surface glossy with dense and fine punctures; head quadrate, not distinctly transverse; pronotum less than 1.25 times as wide as long; metatarsomeres 1–4 subequal in length; abdomen parallel-sided, tergites III–V with transverse basal impression, posterior margin of female sternite VIII with specialized minute setae; female with secondary sclerite in genital segment; internal sac of median lobe with two bundles of spinose structure; spermatheca tiny ( Muona 1995).