Eupines

Eupines sphaerica, (a) habitus of female and (b) aedeagus, from Li et al. (2021).

Belongs within: Pselaphinae.

Eupines is an Indo-Australasian genus of smooth pselaphine beetles (Raffray 1904).

Characters (Raffray 1904): Body fairly elongated-ovoid. Antenna variable, but club always multi-articulated, last articles sometimes irregular. Palps regular and normal. Median longitudinal keel on lower face of head. Prothorax and elytra without well-developed pits. No dorsal stria on elytra. Elytra very large, much longer than wide. Mesocoxae widely separated; mesosternum wide and truncated between mesocoxae. Metacoxae widely separated. Abdomen margined laterally, with first tergite barely larger than following ones.

<==Eupines King 1866NG05 [incl. Brabaxis Raffray 1890R04, Patranus Raffray 1890R04]
| i. s.: E. deformis Sharp 1874R04
|--E. (Eupines)R04
| |--E. (E.) aequata King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) atomus (Schaufuss 1887) [=Bryaxis atomus]R04
| |--E. (E.) atra King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) aurora [incl. E. affinis]R04
| |--E. (E.) biclavata Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) bicolor Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) blackburni Raffray 1904 [=E. sternalis Raffray 1900 non Broun 1893]R04
| |--E. (E.) caledonica Raffray 1896R04
| |--E. (E.) capitata King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) clavatula King 1864R04
| |--E. (E.) compressinoda Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) concolor Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) diversicolorR04
| |--E. (E.) diversicornis (Raffray 1900) [=Eupinoda diversicornis]R04
| |--E. (E.) dubia Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) exigua King 1863R04
| |--E. (E.) fuscicornis Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) geminata King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) globulifer (Schaufuss 1880) (see below for synonymy)R04
| |--E. (E.) grata Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) inconspicua (Schaufuss 1887) [=Bryaxis inconspicua]R04
| |--E. (E.) laevifrons Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) liliputana Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) longicornis Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) longipennis Raffray 1882R04
| |--E. (E.) megacephala Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) melanocephalaR04
| |--E. (E.) micans Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) militaris Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) minima Raffray 1904R04
| |--E. (E.) nauta Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) nautoides Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) nigriceps Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) nigricollis (King 1864) [=Tychus nigricollis]R04
| |--E. (E.) nodicornis Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) nodosa Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) pallipes Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) paludis (Blackburn 1891) [=Bryaxis paludis]R04
| |--E. (E.) pectoralis Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) piciceps Broun 1880R04
| |--E. (E.) picta (see below for synonymy)R04
| |--E. (E.) plecta Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) polita King 1863R04
| |--E. (E.) pumilioR04
| |--E. (E.) punctata Broun 1886R04
| |--E. (E.) relicta Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) sobrinaR04
| |--E. (E.) soror Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) sororcula Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) sphaerica (Motchulsky 1851) (see below for synonymy)R04
| |--E. (E.) spinifera Fauvel 1903R04
| |--E. (E.) spiniventris Blackburn 1891R04
| |--E. (E.) spreta Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) sternalis Broun 1893R04
| |--E. (E.) sulcata Sharp 1874R04
| |--E. (E.) suturalis Fauvel 1903R04
| |--E. (E.) talpaR04
| |--E. (E.) transversa King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) trapezus Fauvel 1903R04
| |--E. (E.) triangulata Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) tuberosa Raffray 1900R04
| |--E. (E.) victoriae King 1866R04
| |--E. (E.) villosula Raffray 1896R04
| `--E. (E.) vitreaR04
`--E. (Byraxis Reitter 1879)R04
|--E. (B.) allocera Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) altula Broun 1880R04
|--E. (B.) conspicua Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) costata Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) crassicornis Broun 1880R04
|--E. (B.) decens Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) dispar Sharp 1874 [incl. E. ovalipennis]R04
|--E. (B.) diversa Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) elizabethae King 1864R04
|--E. (B.) forficulida Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) foveatissima Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) fraudulenta Broun 1886R04
|--E. (B.) glabrata Broun 1886R04
|--E. (B.) hectori Broun 1895R04
|--E. (B.) impar Sharp 1874R04
|--E. (B.) impressifrons Broun 1880R04
|--E. (B.) longiceps Raffray 1904R04
|--E. (B.) monstrosa Reitter 1879R04
|--E. (B.) munda (Broun 1880) [=Bryaxis munda; incl. E. mundula Broun 1893]R04
|--E. (B.) munroi Broun 1893R04
|--E. (B.) nemoralis Broun 1886R04
|--E. (B.) pagana Broun 1881R04
|--E. (B.) platyarthra Broun 1893 [incl. Bryaxis clavata Broun 1880 non Brendel 1866, E. (B.) clavata]R04
|--E. (B.) rudicornis Broun 1886R04
|--E. (B.) sanguinea (Broun 1880) [=Bryaxis sanguinea; incl. E. fulvitarsis Broun 1893]R04
|--E. (B.) setifera Broun 1893R04
`--E. (B.) sylvicola Broun 1886R04

Eupines (Eupines) globulifer (Schaufuss 1880) [=Bryaxis globulifer, Patranus globulifer; incl. Eupines ampliventris, Tychus politus Schaufuss 1886 non E. polita King 1863]R04

Eupines (Eupines) picta [incl. E. picta var. aethiops, E. picta var. ebenifer, E. picta var. frontalis, E. laeviceps, E. picta var. verticalis]R04

Eupines (Eupines) sphaerica (Motchulsky 1851) [=Brabaxis sphaerica; incl. E. fonensis Schaufuss 1877, E. siamensis Schaufuss 1877]R04

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[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.

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

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