Placusini

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: Placusini
Genera (5): Euvira - Kyrtusa – Placukorna – Placusa – Speiraphallusa
Name

Placusini Mulsant & Rey, 1871: 102

Type species: Placusa Erichson, 1837.

Synonymy

Placusates Mulsant & Rey, 1871: 102 [original combination]
Euvirae Seevers, 1978: 272 [unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1)]
Type genus: Euvira Sharp, 1883.

References
Primary references

Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1871. Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Brévipennes. Aléochariens [Huitième Branche, Bolitocharaires]. Deyrolle Fils, Paris, [4] + 321 + pp. + [5, explic.] + [4, table, erratum] + 5 pls. BHL [original description: p. 102]

Additional references

Ashe, J.S. 1991: The systematic position of Placusa Erichson and Euvira Sharp: the tribe Placusini described (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Systematic entomology, 16: 383–400. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1991.tb00674.x