Brachygluta

Belongs within: Pselaphinae.

Brachygluta is a cosmopolitan genus of relatively long-bodied pselaphine beetles (Raffray 1904).

Characters (Raffray 1904): Body fairly elongated, more or less parallel. Antennae 11-segmented in both sexes. Palps with article 4 acuminate apically. Median longitudinal keel on underside of head. Pronotum with three equal-sized fossae, not connected by transverse groove. Elytra with a long, more or less complete dorsal stria; supra-epipleural groove absent. Mesocoxae contiguous. Metasternum large, square. Metacoxae widely separated. Abdomen always margined laterally, this margin moreover very variable.

<==Brachygluta Thomson 1859 [incl. Nisa Casey 1886]R04
    |--B. abdominalis Aubé 1833 [incl. B. dentata Aubé 1844 (preoc.)]R04
    |--B. apenninaR04
    |--B. araxidis Reitter 1889R04
    |--B. arguta Casey 1897R04
    |--B. arizonae Casey 1887R04
    |--B. aubei Tournier 1867 [incl. B. aubei var. pici Raffray 1904]R04
    |--B. balcanica Saulcy 1878R04
    |--B. belfragei Leconte 1880R04
    |--B. breiti Holdhaus 1902R04
    |--B. brunneiventris Motsch. 1851 [incl. B. persica]R04
    |--B. caligataR04
    |--B. carmelitana Reitter 1884R04
    |--B. carthagenicaR04
    |--B. cavernosa Saulcy 1878R04
    |--B. cavicornis Brendel 1865R04
    |--B. celtibericaR04
    |--B. colchicaR04
    |--B. corsicaR04
    |--B. cotusR04
    |--B. croissandeaui Reitter 1887R04
    |--B. dentataR04
    |--B. dentiventrisR04
    |--B. dichroaR04
    |--B. diecki Saulcy 1878R04
    |--B. elegansR04
    |--B. floridana Brendel 1865R04
    |--B. fossulata Reichenbach 1816 (see below for synonymy)R04
    |--B. foveataR04
    |--B. foveiventis Raffray 1882R04
    |--B. fuchsi Krauss 1900R04
    |--B. ‘furcata’ Motsch. non Fairmaire 1859R04
    |--B. galatheaR04
    |--B. globulicollisR04
    |--B. guillemardiR04
    |--B. haematica (see below for synonymy)R04
    |--B. haemoptera Aubé 1844 [incl. B. spinicoxis Motsch. 1835, B. xanthoptera Aubé 1833 non Reichenbach 1816]R04
    |--B. helferi Schmidt 1836R04
    |--B. hemipteraR04
    |--B. hipponensisR04
    |--B. hummleri Reitter 1900R04
    |--B. illinoiensis Brendel 1865R04
    |--B. infinita Casey 1886R04
    |--B. intermediaR04
    |--B. intricata Casey 1893R04
    |--B. kabyliana Raffray 1873R04
    |--B. klimschi Holdhaus 1902R04
    |--B. labiata Raffray 1896R04
    |--B. labyrinthica Casey 1893R04
    |--B. langei Reitter 1884R04
    |--B. lederiR04
    |--B. lefebvrei Aubé 1833R04
    |--B. leprieuri [incl. B. leprieuri var. elevata Raffray 1904]R04
    |--B. longispina Reitter 1884R04
    |--B. loripes Casey 1893R04
    |--B. luniger [=Nisa luniger]R04
    |--B. mauritanicaR04
    |--B. maxima Reitter 1884R04
    |--B. minor (Fairmaire 1898) [=Centrophthalmus minor]R04
    |--B. motschulskyiR04
    |--B. narentina Reitter 1890R04
    |--B. nodiventris Reitter 1899R04
    |--B. numidicaR04
    |--B. paludosa Peyron 1858 [incl. B. gibbera Baudi 1869]R04
    |--B. pandelleiR04
    |--B. perpunctataR04
    |--B. perrieri Raffray 1899R04
    |--B. piccioliiR04
    |--B. pirazzoliiR04
    |--B. ragusaeR04
    |--B. reichei Motsch. 1859 [incl. B. furcata Fairmaire 1859]R04
    |--B. retowskyi Simon 1883R04
    |--B. reveliereiR04
    |--B. sardoaR04
    |--B. schueppeli Aubé 1844R04
    |--B. simplex Waterh. 1862LC20, R04
    |--B. syriaca Baudi 1849R04
    |--B. terebrata Casey 1893 [incl. B. perforata Brendel 1866 (preoc.)]R04
    |--B. tetuanica Reitter 1884R04
    |--B. texana Casey 1886R04
    |--B. tibialis Aubé 1844 [incl. B. marthae Reitter 1880]R04
    |--B. transversalis Schaum. 1859R04
    |--B. trifoveata Raffray 1896R04
    |--B. tristis Hasmpe 1863 [incl. B. nigrescens Marseul 1873, B. nigricans Gredler 1863, B. sartorii]R04
    |--B. trochalis Raffray 1903R04
    |--B. tuberculata Baudi 1869R04
    |--B. uhagoniR04
    |--B. ulkei Brendel 1866R04
    |--B. waterhousei Rye in Reiter 1881R04
    |--B. wilbergi Reitter 1891R04
    `--B. xanthoptera Reichenbach 1816 [incl. B. depressa Aubé 1833, B. rubripennis Aubé 1833]R04

Brachygluta fossulata Reichenbach 1816 [incl. B. fossulata var. aterrima Reitter 1881, B. fossulata var. rufescens Reitter 1881]^R04

Brachygluta haematica [incl. B. haematica var. bidenticulata, B. emarginata, B. haematica var. nodosa, B. obscura, B. palustris Reitter 1881, B. haematica var. perforata, B. haematica var. simplicior Raffray 1904, B. haematica var. sinuata Aubé 1833, B. haematica var. trigonoprocta, B. haematica var. tuberiventris Raffray 1873]^R04

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[LC20] Lü, L., C.-Y. Cai, X. Zhang, A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer & H.-Z. Zhou. 2020. Linking evolutionary mode to palaeoclimate change reveals rapid radiations of staphylinoid beetles in low-energy conditions. Current Zoology 66 (4): 435–444.

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