Achillia

Belongs within: Pselaphinae.

Achillia is a Neotropical genus of pselaphine beetles with a relatively flattened, elongate habitus (Raffray 1904).

Characters (Raffray 1904): Body more or less flattened, elongated and parallel. Head, and often antennae, irregular in males. Article 4 of palps briefly ovoid, very acuminate at top. Median longitudinal keel on lower face of head. Prothorax with three large fossae. Elytra quite square, dorsal stria well marked, shortened towards middle. Intermediate coxae not very far apart, mesosternum forming a narrow blade between them, more or less pointed at end. Posterior coxae well separated. Abdomen margined laterally; first dorsal segment larger than others.

<==Achillia Reitter 1890R04
    |--A. approximans Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. bifossifrons Reitter 1883R04
    |--A. bituberculata Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. blanchardi Raffray 1904 [=A. valdiviensis Reitter 1883 non Pselaphus valdiviensis]R04
    |--A. brevicornis Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. clavata Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. convexiceps Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. cordicollis Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. cosmoptera (see below for synonymy)R04
    |--A. elfridae Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. excisaR04
    |--A. humidula Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. kindermanni Reitter 1883R04
    |--A. larvata Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. latifrons Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. longiceps Reitter 1883R04
    |--A. monstrata Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. picea Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. praeclara Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. puncticeps Reitter 1883R04
    |--A. quadraticeps Raffray 1904R04
    |--A. simulans Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. tripunctata Reitter 1885R04
    |--A. valdiviensis (see below for synonymy)R04
    `--A. validicornis Reitter 1885R04

Achillia cosmoptera [=Pselaphus cosmopterus, Aplodea cosmoptera, Tyropsis cosmoptera; incl. Bryaxis chilensis Reitter 1883]^R04

Achillia valdiviensis [=Pselaphus valdiviensis, Aplodea valdiviensis, Tyropsis valdiviensis; incl. A. anas Reitter 1885, A. nasina Reitter 1893, Bryaxis nasuta Reitter 1885 non Broun 1880]^R04

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[R04] Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides [part II]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1–400.