Ctenistes

Belongs within: Pselaphitae.

Ctenistes is an Old World genus of pselaphine beetles in which males bear a particularly large antennal club of four segments (Raffray 1904).

Characters (Raffray 1904): Body elongate. Antennae long, males with club very large, of four articles, articles 3–7 very small and usually less long together than club, females with club more or less distinct, antennae gradually thickening. Maxillary palps of four articles; first article very small, but visible; articles 2, 3, 4 penicillate; last article transverse, with a lateral appendage, its internal apical angle being rounded, muticate. Underside of head absolutely simple.

<==Ctenistes Reichenbach 1816 [incl. Dionyx Le Pelet. & Serv. 1825]R04a
    |--C. adelaidae Blackb. 1889M96
    |--C. andalusicus Saulcy 1870R04a
    |--C. andersoni Blackb. 1891M96
    |--C. australis Raffray 1887R04a
    |--C. braunsi Raffray 1898R04a
    |--C. brevicornisR04a
    |--C. crassicornis Raffray 1904R04a
    |--C. curvidens Raffray 1882R04a
    |--C. deserticola Raffray 1882R04a
    |--C. imitator Reitter 1882R04a
    |--C. kiesenwetteri Saulcy 1874R04a
    |--C. marthae Reitter 1891R04a
    |--C. mimeticus Sharp 1883R04a
    |--C. mitis Schaufuss 1882NG05
    |--C. oculatus Sharp 1874R04a
    |--C. opacus [=Enoptostomus opacus]R04a
    |--C. palpalis Reichenbach 1816 [incl. C. canaliculatus Reitter 1887, C. dejeani]R04a
    |--C. parviceps Raffray 1887R04a
    |--C. samenensis Raffray 1877R04a
    |--C. staudingeri Schaufuss 1861R04a
    |--C. tenebricosus Blackb. 1889M96
    `--C. zanzibaricus Raffray 1887R04a

Nomina nuda: Ctenistes aequatorialis Motschulsky 1855R04b
             C. angusticollis Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. birmanensis Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. costulatus Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. elegans Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. hindustanus Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. longicornis Motschulsky 1851R04b
             C. pilicollis Motschulsky 1851R04b

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[M96] Masters, G. 1896. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Supplement, part II. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophyllidae, Staphylinidae, Pselaphidae, Paussidae, Silphidae, Scaphididae, Histeridae, Phalacridae, Nitidulidae, Trogositidae, Colydiidae, Cucujidae, Cryptophagidae, Lathridiidae, Mycetophagidae, Dermestidae, Byrrhidae, Parnidae, Heteroceridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21 (Suppl.): 695–754.

[NG05] Nomura, S., & I. Abd Ghani. 2005. Faunistic notes on the pselaphine species of the supertribes Goniaceritae, Pselaphitae and Clavigeritae from Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Serangga 10 (1–2): 1–36.

[R04a] Raffray, A. 1904a. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides [part II]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1–400.

[R04b] Raffray, A. 1904b. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides [part III]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 401–476, pls 1–3.