Prosthetops

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: Hydraenidae
Subfamilia: Prosthetopinae
Tribus: Prosthetopini
Genus: Prosthetops
Species (7): P. gladiator – P. grandiceps – P. megacephalus – P. nitens – P. pronotus – P. setosus – P. wolfbergensis

In synonymy (3): P. capensis – P. proximus – P. sculpticollis
Name

Prosthetops Waterhouse, 1879

Primary references

Waterhouse 1879: J. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., 14, 533.