Ocalea

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: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Oxypodini
Subtribus: Oxypodina
Genus: Ocalea
Subgenera: Tetrocalea

Species overview: O. abdominalis – O. alutacea – O. atlasica – O. atypha – O. baal – O. badia – O. bicolor – O. brachyptera – O. brouni – O. bruchi – O. bulgarica – O. championi – O. chinensis – O. concolor – O. corsicana – O. cretica – O. dabensis – O. dejecta – O. deuvei – O. discrepans – O. erlangensis – O. funebris – O. fungicola – O. gibbula – O. glabricollis – O. glaciei – O. globulicollis – O. gyorgyi – O. himalayica – O. hudsoni – O. intermedia – O. intermediides – O. japonica – O. kabyliana – O. koreana – O. latipennis – O. lobifera – O. luscitiosa – O. magna – O. ming – O. minor – O. morvani – O. nepalica – O. pernitida – O. persica – O. picata – O. plicasentiens – O. pollinensis – O. polyporobia – O. pontica – O. puncticeps – O. puncticollis – O. rivularis – O. robusta – O. rufa – O. ruficollis – O. rufobrunnea – O. sahlbergi – O. shaanxiensis – O. simlaensis – O. skalitzkyi – O. socialis – O. submetallica – O. suturalis – O. tuberculiventris – O. vancouveri – O. zahra

Invalid species names: O. hartmanni – O. intermedia
Name

Ocalea Erichson, 1837: 298

Type species: Ocalea castanea Erichson, 1837 (= Aleochara picata Stephens, 1832), fixed by subsequent designation in Shuckard, 1839: 137.

References
Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1837. Die Käfer der Mark Brandenburg. Erster Band, Erste Abtheilung. Berlin: F.H. Morin, viii + 384 pp. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 298]

Ocalea is a genus of the rove beetles (insects in the family Staphylinidae). The group contains 24 species[1] which can be found on the mainland of Europe (mostly in Romania) North America (British Columbia and perhaps other locations), and in New Zealand.[2]
Species

Ocalea agnita
Ocalea badia
Ocalea columbiana
Ocalea franciscana
Ocalea grandicollis
Ocalea gyorgyi
Ocalea robusta

References

Jan Klimaszewskia1; Georges Pelletiera (August 2004). "Review of the Ocalea group of genera (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) in Canada and Alaska: new taxa, bionomics, and distribution". Canadian Entomologist. Cambridge University Press/Entomological Society of Canada. 136 (4): 443–500. doi:10.4039/n03-069.
V. Assing and H. Terlutter. "A new species of Ocalea from Romania (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)" (PDF). Linzer biol. Beitr. Lands Museum. pp. 1337–1340.