Pella

Life-forms

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: Myrmedoniina
Genus: Pella
Species: P. angustula – P. barbara – P. beijingorum – P. bohaci – P. brasiliana – P. caliginosa – P. carolinae – P. cinctipennis – P. cognata – P. comes – P. cooterorum – P. coreana – P. criddlei – P. discolor – P. ecuamazzonica – P. erratica – P. excepta – P. fauveli – P. feldmanni – P. funesta – P. gesneri – P. gibbera – P. glooscapi – P. hampei – P. hlavaci – P. horii – P. humeralis – P. iberica – P. indiscreta – P. intermedia – P. japonica – P. jelineki – P. jureceki – P. kidaorum – P. kinomurai – P. kirgisica – P. kishimotoi – P. kuluensis – P. laeviceps – P. laticollis – P. leonhardi – P. limbata – P. loricata – P. lugens – P. maoershanensis – P. masakoae – P. maura – P. plutenkoi – P. primorskyiana – P. puetzi – P. pumila – P. rambouseki – P. recisa – P. reuteri – P. ruficollis – P. schillhammeri – P. schmitti – P. sichuanensis – P. similis – P. socia – P. spreta – P. sultanica – P. tianmuensis – P. zhoui
Name

Pella Stephens, 1835: 434

Type species: Staphylinus limbatus Paykull, 1789, designated by Westwood, 1838: 20.

Synonymy

Zyras (Lepla) Tottenham, 1939: 226 [synonymy in Maruyama, 2006: 28]
Type species: Aleochara lugens Gravenhorst, 1802, fixed by original designation.
Myrmedonia (Myrmelia) Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 152 [synonymy in Maruyama, 2006: 27]
Type species: Myrmedonia excepta Mulsant & Rey, 1861, fixed by monotypy.
Myrmedonia (Pellochromonia) Reitter, 1909: 43 [synonymy in Maruyama, 2006: 27]
Type species: Myrmedonia ruficollis Grimm, 1845, 1861, fixed by monotypy.

Pella glooscapi

References
Primary references

Stephens, J.F., 1835. Illustrations of British entomology; or, a synopsis of indigenous insects; containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. 5: 369–448. London: Baldwin and Cradock. BHL [original description: p. 434]

Additional references

Klimaszewski, J., Lynch, D., Majka, C.G., Renkema, J., Savard, K. & Hlaváč, P. 2009a: Pella glooscapi, a new rove beetle, and new records of aleocharines from Nova Scotia, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 22: 35–44. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.95 Reference page.
Maruyama, M. 2006: Revision of the Palearctic species of the myrmecophilous genus Pella (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). National Science Museum monographs, (32 ) ISSN: 1342-9574
Song, X.-B.; Li, L.-Z. 2013: Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China. ZooKeys 275: 17-21. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.275.4449 Reference page.
Stephens, J.F. 1833: Illustrations of British entomology: or, a synopsis of indigenous insects: containing their generic and specific distinctions; with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food and economy, as far as practicable. Mandibulata. Baldwin and Cradock, London, 5: 241–304 + pl. 27.
Yan, Z-Q. & Li, L-Z. 2015. Description of Pella tianmuensis sp. n. from eastern China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Zookeys 539: 147-150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.539.6256 Full article Reference page.
Zheng, D.-L. & Zhao, M.-J. 2014. Description of Pella sichuanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Micang Mountain, Sichuan, China. Zootaxa 3881(6): 597–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.6.9 Reference page.

Pella is a genus of rove beetles.
Species

Pella angustula (Casey, 1893)
Pella caliginosa (Casey, 1893)
Pella carolina (Casey, 1911)
Pella criddlei (Casey, 1911)
Pella fauveli (Sharp, 1883)
Pella gesneri Klimaszewski in Klimaszewski, Sweeney, Price & Pelletier, 2005
Pella loricata (Casey, 1893)
Pella maoershanensis Song & Li, 2013 [1]
Pella recisa (Casey, 1911)
Pella schmitti (Hamilton, 1895)

References

Song; Li (2013). "Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China". ZooKeys (275): 17–21. doi:10.3897/zookeys.275.4449. PMC 3677325. PMID 23794809.