Belongs within: Harpalinae.
Rhytisternus is a genus of ground beetles found in Australia and New Zealand, characterised by the presence of functional wings, the lack of a scrobal seta on the mandibles, antennae with the basal three segments glabrous, elytra with the third interstice impunctate, and striolate pro-episterna.
<==Rhytisternus Chaudoir 1865 [=Amastus Motschulsky 1865]LM87 |--*R. liopleurus (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (*Rhytisternus) liopleura; incl. *Amastus nigricolor Motschulsky 1865]LM87 |--R. angustulus Macleay 1888LM87 |--R. arnheimensis (Castelnau 1867) [=Feronia arnheimensis]LM87 |--R. bovilli Blackburn 1890LM87 |--R. callabonnensis Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. cardwellensis Blackburn 1892LM87 |--R. carpentarius Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. cyathoderus (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (Rhytisternus) cyathodera; incl. F. lachlandiensis Castelnau 1867]LM87 |--R. froggatti (Macleay 1888) [=Omaseus froggatti]LM87 |--R. gigas Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. laevilateraB90 |--R. laevis (Macleay 1883) [=Poecilus laevis]LM87 |--R. limbatus Macleay 1888LM87 |--R. mastersii (Macleay 1871) [=Omaseus mastersii]LM87 |--R. miser (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (Rhytisternus) misera; incl. F. subcarbonaria Castelnau 1867]LM87 |--R. nigellus Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. obtusus Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. plebeius (Chaudoir 1874) [=Feronia (Rhytisternus) plebeia]LM87 |--R. puellus (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (Rhytisternus) puella; incl. F. clarenciensis Castelnau 1867]LM87 |--R. solidus Sloane 1895LM87 |--R. splendens Blackburn 1892LM87 |--R. stuarti Sloane 1895LM87 `--R. sulcatipes Blackburn 1888LM87
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B90] Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 4 (3): 707–746.
[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.