Proteinus

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: Proteininae
Tribus: Proteinini
Genus: Proteinus
Species: P. abditus – P. acadiensis – P. akikoae – P. altaicus – P. angelinii – P. angulatus – P. atomarius – P. awanus – P. baculatus – P. basalis – P. brachypterus – P. cavatus – P. collaris – P. crassicornis – P. crenulatus – P. creticus – P. densipennis – P. ezoensis – P. flavocaudatus – P. fuscotestaceus – P. gotoi – P. hamatus – P. hughesi – P. hyperboreus – P. kashmiricus – P. laevigatus – P. lencinai – P. limbatus – P. longicornis – P. macropterus – P. meuseli – P. minutus – P. nitiduloides – P. ovalis – P. parvulus – P. peckorum – P. planicollis – P. pseudothomasi – P. reflexicollis – P. ruficollis – P. salebrosus – P. sawadai – P. shibatai – P. siculus – P. sulcatus – P. sweeneyi – P. taichii – P. tateoitoi – P. thomasi – P. tronqueti – P. utrarius – P. yoshidai – P. zanettii

Invalid species names: P. hibernus
Name

Proteinus Latreille, 1797: 9 [without species; also Latreille, 1802: 135, 1806: 298]

Type species: Dermestes brachypterus Fabricius, 1792, designated in ICZN 1969: 14 (Opinion 876).

Synonymy

Dolopes Rafinesque, 1815: 110 [new name for Proteinus Latreille]
Macropterum Gistel, 1829: 37 [also 1834: 9, 1856: 390]
Type species: Omalium macropterum Gravenhorst, 1806, fixed by monotypy.
Protinus Agassiz, 1846: 310 [unjustified emendation of Proteinus]
Pteronius Blackwelder, 1952: 331 [for Proteinus of Latreille 1810]
Type species: Dermestes brachypterus Fabricius, 1792, fixed by original designation.

References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. 1797. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. Brive: F. Bourdeaux, xiv + 201 + 7 pp. [original description: p. 9]

Additional references

Frank, J.H. 1979: A new species of Proteinus Latreille (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Florida. Florida entomologist, 62 (4): 329–340. JSTOR
Hayashi, Y. 2000: A new species of Proteinus from Shikoku, Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Entomological review of Japan, 55 (2): 91–94. [not seen]
Hayashi, Y. 2008: Three new species of Proteinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Shikoku, Japan. Special publication of the Japan Coleopterological Society, 2: 165–175.

Proteinus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.[1]

The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and America.[1]

Species:[1]

Proteinus abditus Assing, 2007
Proteinus acadiensis Klimaszewski, 2005

References

"Proteinus Latreille, 1796". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 March 2021.