Aleocharina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Aleocharini
Subtribus: Aleocharina
Genera (16): Aleochara – Aleonictus – Amarochara – Axiologarthra – Formicaenictus – Indiachara – Leptogenophilus – Megalogastria – Ocyota – Paraleochara – Paroxysmene – Piochardia – Plesiochara – Pseudocalea – Rencoma – Tetrasticta

In synonymy: Cratoacrochara – Creochara – Rheochara
Name

Aleocharina Fleming, 1821: 49

Type genus: Aleochara Gravenhorst, 1802

Synonymy

Aleocharidae Fleming, 1821: 49 [original name]
Piochardiae Fenyes, 1918: 20
Type genus: Piochardia Heyden, 1870.

References
Primary references

Fleming, J. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume Fifth [Part 1]. 584 pp. A. Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 41–56, pl. 85. Archive Reference page. [see p. 49]

Additional references

Assing, V., 1999: A revision of the genus Piochardia Heyden, 1870 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Annales des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 101 B: 277–301. Full article: [1]
Pace, R., 2013: Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Hoplandriini, Aleocharini e Sinanarchusini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). (Biodiversity of the Aleocharinae of China: Hoplandriini, Aleocharini and Sinanarchusini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)).. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 63 (1): 5–24. Abstract: [2].

Aleocharina is the type subtribe and largest subtribe of the tribe Aleocharini. It contains 450 species in 10 genera.[1] Although the average number of species per genera is 45, one genus (Aleochara) contains nearly all species of the subtribe. The classification of the subtribe is under debate due to the uncertainties of the genus Aleochara. Members of the subtribe are characterized by a 5-5-5 segmented tarsi.[1]

The subtribe contains the following genera:[1]

Aleochara
Correa
Cratoacrochara
Creochara
Ilarochara
Leptogenophilus
Lyperosterochara
Ocyota
Oxybessoglossa
Palaeochara
Paraleochara
Paroxysmeme
Piochardia
Plesiochara
Pseudocalea

References

"Aleocharina". Forestis. Archived from the original on 2015-02-08.