Priochirus unicolor

Priochirus unicolor is a species of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae. This species can be found in Indonesia.[1]

Priochirus unicolor
Priochirus unicolor from Sumatra. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Superfamily:	Staphylinoidea
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subfamily:	Osoriinae
Genus:	Priochirus
Species:	P. unicolor
Binomial name
Priochirus unicolor (Laporte, 1835)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Leptochirus unicolor Laporte, 1835[3] Priochirus unicolor Heller, 1898[4] Leptochirus coronatus Sachse, 1852[5]

Taxonomy

Francis de Laporte de Castelnau described this species in 1835, placing it in the genus Leptochirus.[3] It continued to be classified in this genus by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1840)[6] and Albert-Auguste Fauvel (1905).[7] Those who placed it in the genus Priochirus included Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller (1898).[4]

Malcolm Cameron classified it in the Triacanthochirus subgenus of Priochirus.[8]

As per a 1920 designation by Robert Lucas, it is the type species of the subgenus Eutriacanthus Jakobson, 1908.[9]

In 2007, Jie Wu and Hong-Zhang Zhou transferred this species to the genus Plastus;[10] this has been accepted by the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.[11]

Distribution

Its type locality is Java.[3] Fauvel wrote that its range included Sumatra, the Banggai Islands, Mentawai Islands, Bodjo, Borneo, Malacca, Cambodje.[7]

In 1898, Heller listed its distribution as Java and the Mentawai Islands.[4]

P. J. M. Greenslade described its range as comprising Indochina, Sumatra, and Java.[9]

Wu and Zhao reported observing it in Yunnan Province, China;[2] they also listed Vietnam as part of its range.[10]

Description

Laport recorded its dimensions as 5½ lignes (≈12.4 mm, 0.49 in) long and 1¼ lignes (≈2.82 mm, 0.111 in) wide.[3] Erichson recorded its length as 6 lignes (≈13.55 mm, 0.533 in).[6] Max Bernhauer recorded its length as 13–16 mm (0.51–0.63 in)[12]

References

1. Herman, Lee H. (2001). "Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. III. Oxyteline group". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 265: 1141. hdl:2246/5828.
2. Wu, Jie; Zhou, Hong-zhang (2007). "Taxonomy of the subgenus Eutriacanthus Jakobson, of the genus Priochirus Sharp, from southern China, with the description of two new species from Guangxi and Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae)". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 55 (2): 267–276.
3. de Laporte, F. L. (1835). "Leptochirus Unicolor". Études entomologiques, ou description d'insectes nouveaux, et observations sur leur synonymie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis. p. 125.
4. Heller, K. M. (1898). "Neue Käfer von Celebes. III". Abhandlungen und Berichte Königl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden. 7 (3): 8.
5. Sachse, [Johann Christian Rudolf] (1852). "Neue Käfer". Entomologische Zeitung. 13: 146–147.
6. Erichson, Guil. F. (1840). "L. unicolor". Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae. Berlin: F. H. Morin. p. 826.
7. Fauvel, Albert (1905). "Staphylinides de Java, recueillies par M. le Dr. K. Kraepelin et M. le Dr. Koningsberger en 1904". Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. 22: 77.
8. Cameron, Malcolm (1936). "Fauna Javanica. The Staphylinidae (Col.) collected by Mr. F. C. Drescher". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 79: 26.
9. Greenslade, P. J. M. (1971). "The genus Priochirus Sharp, 1887 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): revision of subgeneric classification and descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 123 (2): 137–138. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1971.tb00842.x.
10. Wu, Jie; Zhou, Hong-Zhang (2007). "Phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of the genus Priochirus Sharp (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Osoriinae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 21 (1): 73–107. doi:10.1071/IS06010.
11. Schülke, Michael; Smetana, Aleš (2015). "Staphylinidae". In Löbl, Ivan; Löbl, Daniel (eds.). Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. 2 (Revised & updated ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 748. doi:10.1163/9789004296855. ISBN 9789004296855.
12. Bernhauer, Max (1903). "Die Staphyliniden-Tribus Leptochirina nebst analytischen Bestimmungstabellen der Gattungen". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 1903 (1): 136. doi:10.1002/mmnd.48019030113.

Further reading

• Scheerpeltz, O. (1935). "Staphyliniden aus den Sundainseln und Nordaustralien". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 42 (25): 598.