Adrastia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Scydmaenitae
Tribus: Scydmaenini
Genus: Adrastia
Species: A. angulifrons – A. angustissima – A. anophthalma – A. anthicoides – A. brookesi – A. clarkei – A. clavatella – A. curticornis – A. decipiens – A. dentipes – A. edwardsi – A. gourlayi – A. greymouthi – A. haastensis – A. laetans – A. nelsoni – A. novaezeelandiae – A. paravillosipennis – A. peckorum – A. princeps – A. stokesi – A. subinermis – A. townsendi – A. villosipennis – A. wilmotensis
Name

Adrastia Broun, 1881: 663

Type species: Adrastia laetans Broun, 1881, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Scydmaenus (Zeemicrus) Lhoste, 1938: 95
Type species: Scydmaenus angulifrons Broun, 1915, fixed by original designation.
Scydmaenus (Austroscydmaenus) Franz, 1975: 117
Type species: Scydmaenus edwardsi Sharp, 1874, fixed by original designation.

Note

Treated as a subgenus of Scydmaenus Latreille by Franz, 1980: 307, but reinstated by Kuschel, 1990: 76.
References
Primary references

Broun, T. 1881. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part II. Pp. 653–744. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, Wellington. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 663]

Additional references

Franz, H. 1980: Weiterer Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scydmaenidenfauna Neuseelands. Sitzungsberichte der Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematische-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abt. 1, 189: 249–313.
Kuschel, G. 1990: Beetles in a suburban environment: a New Zealand case study. DSIR Plant Protection report, 3. [1]