Osoriinae

Osoriinae
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 Erichson, 1839

Osoriinae is a subfamily of rove beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.

Descruption

Species in the Osoriinae subfamily are small (about 2-5 mm of length) and basicaly dark-colored. Their bodies are more or less cylindrical, the heads are relatively large and wide, antennae are filiform, without club, Abdomen is long and narrow and the legs are rather short. Pronotum is relatively narrow and can be cylindrical or more or less heart-shaped. Elytrae and wings are quite short. These beetles especially occur in warm climates.

Tribes and Genera

• Тribe Eleusinini (Sharp, 1887)
  • Eleusis Laporte, 1835
  • Renardia Motschulsky, 1865
  • Triga
  • Zeoleusis Steel, 1950

• Leptochirini (Sharp, 1887)
  • Borolinus Bernhauer, 1903
  • Bothrys Fauvel, 1895
  • Leptochirus Germar, 1824
  • Priochirus (Sharp, 1887)
  • Thoracochirus Bernhauer, 1903

• Osoriini (Erichson, 1839)
  • Bacillopsis Normand, 1920
  • Cylindropsis Fauvel, 1885
  • Leptotyphlopsis Scheerpeltz, 1931
  • Lusitanopsis Coiffait, 1961
  • Oligotyphlopsis Scheerpeltz, 1951
  • Osorius Guérin-Méneville, 1829
  • Typhloiulopsis Scheerpeltz, 1931
  • Typhlosorius Coiffait, 1958

• Thoracophorini (Reitter, 1909)
  • Aneucamptus Sharp, 1887
  • Dirocephalus Silvestri, 1938
  • Espeson Schaufuss, 1882
  • Euctenopsia Bruch, 1942
  • Fauva Blackwelder, 1952
  • Geomitopsis (Scheerpeltz, 1931)
  • Glyptoma Erichson, 1839
  • Liberiana Blackwelder, 1942
  • Lispinodes Blackwelder, 1942
  • Lispinus Erichson, 1839
  • Mesotrochus Wasmann, 1890
  • Nacaeus (Blackwelder, 1942)
  • Neolosus Blackwelder, 1942
  • Pardirocephalus Bruch, 1942
  • Parespeson Bernhauer, 1926
  • Pselaphomimus Bruch, 1942
  • Rhopalopherus Bernhauer, 1909
  • Synaenictus Patrizi, 1947
  • Tannea Blackwelder, 1952
  • Teiros Eichelbaum, 1909
  • Tetrapleurus Bernhauer, 1914
  • Thoracophorus (Motschulsky, 1837)

• incertae sedis:
  • Aschnaosorius

References

• Herman, L.H. 2001 H. 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): 1067—1806.