Lomechusa

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: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Lomechusini
Subtribus: Lomechusina
Genus: Lomechusa
Species: L. atlantica – L. barbarae – L. bifoveolata – L. bordonii – L. brevicornis – L. dvoraki – L. elegans – L. emarginata – L. gerardiphila – L. kishimotoi – L. malaisei – L. paradoxa – L. parva – L. pubicollis – L. seticornis – L. sinuata – L. stangei – L. truncicoloides – L. yunnanensis

Invalid species names L. minor – L. pratensoides – L. sicula
Name

Lomechusa Gravenhorst, 1802: 178

Type species: Staphylinus emarginatus Paykull, 1789, fixed by subsequent designation in by Latreille, 1810: 427.

Synonymy

Lomechusa Gravenhorst, 1802: 178 [original name]; Latreille, 1810: 427 [type designation]; Erichson, 1839: 202; Kraatz, 1856: 114; Wasmann, 1896: 244; Tottenham, 1939: 224 [synonymy]; Blackwelder, 1952: 483 [synonymy]; Smetana, 2004: 237 [catalogue]; Hlaváċ, 2005: 207 [revision]
Atemeles Dillwyn, 1829: 63; Westwood, 1838: 48 [type designation]; Kraatz, 1856: 112; Thomson, 1860: 243; Wasmann, 1896: 253; Fenyes, 1920: 302
Type species: Lomechusa paradoxa Gravenhorst, 1806, fixed by subsequent designation in Westwood, 1838: 48
Atemeles Stephens, 1832: 107; Ganglbauer, 1895: 109; Reitter, 1909: 41; Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 712; Scheerpeltz, 1934: 1664; Blackwelder, 1952: 67 [listed as synonymic homonym of Atemeles Dillwyn, 1829]; Lohse 1974: 228
Type species: Atemeles paradoxa Gravenhorst, 1806
Goniodes Stephens, 1829: 260 [nec Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818]; Blackwelder, 1952: 174
Type species: Goniodes acuminata Stephens, 1829, fixed by monotypy.
Pterygatemeles Scheerpeltz, 1965: 361; Hlaváċ, 2005: 207 [synonymy]
Type species: Pterygatemeles malaisei Scheerpeltz, 1965, fixed by monotypy

References
Primary references

Gravenhorst, J.L.C., 1802: Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. lxvi + 206 pp. Brunsuigae: Carolus Reichard. BHL [original description: p. 178]

Additional references

Chen, Y-J. & Zhou, H-Z. 2007. Taxonomy of the myrmecophilous genus Lomechusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini) from China. Zootaxa 1606: 29–39. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. [diagnosis, distribution, key to Chinese species]

Lomechusa is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.[1]

The species of this genus are found in Europe and Japan.[1] At least one species (Lomechusa pubicollis) is a highly specialized myrmecophile.

Species:[1]

Lomechusa atlantica (Koch, 1937)
Lomechusa barbarae (Schilow, 1977)
Lomechusa pubicollis (de Barneville, 1860)

References

"Lomechusa Gravenhorst, 1806". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.