Mikado

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: Ptiliidae
Subfamilia: Ptiliinae
Tribus: Nanosellini
Genus: Mikado
Synonyms (1): Philagarica

Species (4): M. agilis – M. japonicus – M. parva – M. parvicornis
Name

Mikado Matthews, 1889
Original status: valid genus
Gender: masculine
Type species: Mikado japonicus Matthews, 1889
Fixation: monotypy

References
Primary references

Matthews, A. 1889. New genera and species of Trichopterygidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3(15): 188–195. DOI: 10.1080/00222938909460317 Paywall. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Hall, W.E. 1999: Generic revision of the tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125(1-2): 39–126. JSTOR Reference page. [see p. 53
Polilov, A.A.; Beutel, R.G. 2009: Miniaturisation effects in larvae and adults of Mikado sp. (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae), one of the smallest free-living insects. Arthropod structure & development, 38: 247–270.
Sawada, Y.; Hirowatari, T. 2002: Systematic position of the genus Kuschelidium Johnson (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae), with description of a new species from Japan. Elytra 30(2): 431-438. Full issue (PDF) Reference page.