Echiaster

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
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Paederinae
Tribus: Lathrobiini
Subtribus: Echiasterina
Genus: Echiaster
Species: E. argentifer – E. argentinus – E. asperatus – E. basiventris – E. batesi – E. bernhaueri – E. bivirgatus – E. bonariensis – E. boops – E. brasiliensis – E. brevicornis – E. bruchi – E. bruchianus – E. buphthalmus – E. carinatus – E. championi – E. crocodilus – E. curtipennis – E. curtus – E. depressus – E. discrepans – E. distinctus – E. diversiceps – E. filum – E. foveicollis – E. fumatus – E. funebris – E. gracilis – E. impressicollis – E. latifrons – E. lativentris – E. leleupi – E. longicollis – E. ludovicianus – E. luederwaldti – E. macrops – E. maior – E. mamillatus – E. marcuzzii – E. melanurus – E. microps – E. minimus – E. minutus – E. muticus – E. orbifer – E. paraguayanus – E. paulexcisus – E. pictus – E. pulcher – E. rambouseki – E. reichenspergeri – E. roedingeri – E. rugosulus – E. schadei – E. scissus – E. sharpi – E. signatus – E. tibialis – E. triangulus – E. tuberiventris – E. tucumanensis – E. unicolor – E. waterhousei
Name

Echiaster Erichson, 1839: 29

Type species: Echiaster longicollis Erichson, 1840, designated by Duponchel, 1841: 57.

Synonymy

Leptogenius Casey, 1886: 214
Type species: Leptogenius brevicornis Casey, 1886, fixed by monotypy.
Echiaster (Polyasterellus) Bernhauer, 1925: 34
Type species: Echiaster bruchi Bernhauer, 1925, fixed by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1840. Zweiter Band. Pp. 401–954. In: Genera et Species Staphylinorum, Insectorum Coleopterorum Familiae. Berlin: F.H. Morin, 954 pp. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 29]

Additional references

Assing, V. 2013. The second species of Echiaster from Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 45(2): 1527–1530. PDF Reference page.
Assing, V. 2014. Three new species and additional records of Echiaster from Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46(2): 1087–1096. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [Key to the Asian species of Echiaster: p. 1094]