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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: Paederinae
Tribus: Lathrobiini
Subtribus: Medonina
Genus: Sunius
Subgenera: Caloderma – Trachysectus

Species overview: S. aculeatus – S. acutissimus – S. adanensis – S. aequus – S. afghanicus – S. akdaghensis – S. akianus – S. alaianus – S. algiricus – S. amanensis – S. ambelosicus – S. angolensis – S. anophthalmus – S. apterus – S. atlasicus – S. baboricus – S. baculatus – S. balkarensis – S. basalis – S. basitinctus – S. beesoni – S. behnei – S. berberus – S. bicolor – S. bihamatus – S. bohaci – S. bouddha – S. bozdagensis – S. brachati – S. brachypterus – S. brevipennis – S. brevispinosus – S. cagatayi – S. calatravae – S. cameroni – S. catalonicus – S. cazorlae – S. celebensis – S. cercii – S. championi – S. ciceki – S. cinctus – S. claviceps – S. cokelezensis – S. concurvatus – S. confluentus – S. confusus – S. cordiformis – S. cordobanus – S. cuneicollis – S. cursor – S. curtulus – S. darlingtoni – S. darwini – S. dearmatus – S. deplectens – S. diktianus – S. discretus – S. dumanlianus – S. extensissimus – S. fallax – S. falsus – S. fasciatus – S. fernandezi – S. ferrugineus – S. filabresicus – S. filus – S. flexilis – S. fokisensis – S. fortespinosus – S. fraterculus – S. fulgocephalus – S. fultus – S. furcillatus – S. gadoricus – S. galiberti – S. gebieni – S. geiseri – S. georgii – S. glabriceps – S. goektepensis – S. golgeliensis – S. gourvesi – S. gracilis – S. granulatus – S. hastatus – S. hatayanus – S. hellenicus – S. honazensis – S. hypogaeus – S. ibizae – S. ignatii – S. ignitus – S. immsi – S. impennatus – S. inconspicuus – S. inflexus – S. iranicus – S. italicus – S. kaboulensis – S. kastcheevi – S. khnzoriani – S. kizilcadagicus – S. klapperichi – S. kuehnelti – S. laevior – S. latecinctus – S. latens – S. linnavuorii – S. longispinosus – S. lucens – S. macrops – S. mallorcensis – S. manasluensis – S. marratus – S. martinarum – S. melanocephalus – S. menalonicus – S. meybohmi – S. microphthalmus – S. migrus – S. minutissimus – S. minutus – S. montanellus – S. mordicus – S. mouzaianus – S. nanus – S. nevadensis – S. nidicola – S. nigrinus – S. nigriventris – S. nilgiriensis – S. nurdaghensis – S. oakleyi – S. oblitus – S. occipitalis – S. orgeli – S. ovaliceps – S. ozgeni – S. palmi – S. pauli – S. pennatus – S. pictus – S. pinniger – S. plasoni – S. potti – S. praecisus – S. propinquus – S. puetzi – S. puglianus – S. rastrifer – S. rectus – S. remotus – S. renouardi – S. reuteri – S. rhodicus – S. rubriceps – S. rufotestaceus – S. rugithorax – S. rugosus – S. rugulipennis – S. sandiklicus – S. sardus – S. segurae – S. seminiger – S. sexspinosus – S. simoni – S. sinaicus – S. speciosus – S. spinosissimus – S. sultanicus – S. tauricus – S. tectus – S. tenerifensis – S. terresi – S. terrestris – S. testaceorufus – S. thripticus – S. tronqueti – S. tropicus – S. tuberiventris – S. tuniseus – S. turgescens – S. ulcerosus – S. uniformis – S. vaulogeri – S. viator – S. virilis – S. weberi – S. wrasei – S. wunderlei – S. yagmuri – S. yamani
Name

Sunius Stephens, 1829: 24

Type species: Paederus melanocephalus Fabricius, 1792, fixed by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1838: 17.

Synonymy

Heminedon Casey, 1905: 160
Type species: Hemimedon angustum Casey, 1905, fixed by subsequent designation by Lucas, 1920: 321.
Lena Casey, 1886: 211
Type species: Lena testacea Casey, 1886, fixed by monotypy.
Medonella Casey, 1905: 180
Type species: Medonella minuta Casey, 1905.
Micromedon Casey, 1905: 155
Type species: Lithocharis seminigra Fairmaire, 1860.
Oligopterus Casey, 1886: 12
Type species: Oligopterus cuneicollis Casey, 1886.
Xenocharis Bierig, 1934: 328
Type species: Xenocharis occipitalis Bierig, 1934.

Sunius rufipes dorsal

Sunius rufipes

References
Primary references

Stephens, J.F., 1829: The nomenclature of British insects; being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and forming a guide to their classification, &c. &c. 68 pp. London: Baldwin and Cradock. BHL [original naming: see p. 24]

Additional references

Anlaş, S. 2015. On the genus Sunius Curtis, 1829 of Turkey II. Two new micropterous species and additional records from Western Anatolia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Zootaxa 3986(4): 493–498. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.9. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Anlaş, S. 2016. On the genus Sunius Curtis, 1829 of Turkey. IV. A new micropterous species from southwestern Anatolia and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 123(2): 303–306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155304 Reference page.
Anlaș, S. 2018. On the genus Sunius Stephens, 1829 of Turkey. VI. A new micropterous species and distribution of the genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Zoology in the Middle East 64(1): 68–74. DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1401307. Reference page.
Assing, V., 2001: A new species of Sunius Curtis 1829 from the Haut Atlas, Morocco (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 33 (1): 191–193. Full article: [1].
Assing, V. 2005. On the Turkish species of Sunius. IV. New micropterous species from southwestern Anatolia and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 37(1): 415–423. PDF. Reference page.
Assing, V. 2005. New species and records of Staphylinidae from Tunisia (Insecta: Coleoptera). Linzer biologische Beiträge 37(1): 749–770. PDF. Reference page.
Assing, V., 2010: A revision of Palaearctic Sunius. XII. New species, new synonymies, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2): 1045–1061. Full article: [2].
Assing, V., 2011: The Sunius species of the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 43(1): 151–193. Full article: [3].
Assing, V. 2015. A revision of Sunius XV. Six new species from Kyrgyzstan and the Himalaya, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 65(2): 287–295. Abstract Reference page.

Sunius is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 60 described species in Sunius.[1][2][3]

Species

These 65 species belong to the genus Sunius:

Caloderma angulatum Casey, 1886
Caloderma continens Casey, 1886
Caloderma contractum Casey, 1886
Caloderma mobile Casey, 1886
Caloderma reductum Casey, 1886
Caloderma rugosum Casey, 1886
Caloderma tantillum Casey, 1886
Sunius aculeatus Assing, 2005
Sunius adanensis (Lokay, 1918)
Sunius akdaghensis Anlaş, 2016
Sunius algiricus (Coiffait, 1969)
Sunius amanensis Assing, 2005
Sunius anophthalmus Hernandez & Garcia, 1992
Sunius balkarensis Assing, 2001
Sunius bicolor (Olivier, 1795)
Sunius bozdaghensis Assing, 2006
Sunius brachypterus (Gemminger & Harold, 1868)
Sunius brevipennis (Wollaston, 1864)
Sunius brevispinosus Assing, 2005
Sunius cagatayi Anlaş, 2016
Sunius canariensis (Bernhauer, 1928)
Sunius catalonicus (Coiffait, 1961)
Sunius ciceki Anlaş, 2016
Sunius concurvatus Assing, 2017
Sunius confluentus (Say, 1834)
Sunius confusus (Coiffait, 1969)
Sunius debilicornis (Wollaston, 1857)
Sunius dimidiatus Wollaston, 1864
Sunius fallax (Lokay, 1919)
Sunius fenderi Hatch
Sunius fernandezi Hernandez & Garcia, 1992
Sunius ferrugineus (Bierig, 1934)
Sunius filum Aubé, 1850
Sunius fortespinosus Assing, 2006
Sunius golgeliensis
Sunius hellenicus (Coiffait, 1961)
Sunius italicus (Coiffait, 1961)
Sunius kizilcadagicus
Sunius lebedevi (Roubal, 1926)
Sunius mallorcensis (Coiffait, 1969)
Sunius melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1792)
Sunius microphthalmus (H.Franz, 1979)
Sunius monstrosus LeConte, 1863
Sunius nevadensis (Coiffait, 1969)
Sunius nitens (Duvivier, 1883)
Sunius ovaliceps (Fauvel, 1878)
Sunius ozgeni Anlaş, 2016
Sunius palmi (H.Franz, 1979)
Sunius peregrinus (Casey, 1905)
Sunius plasoni Eppelsheim, 1875
Sunius propinquus (Brisout, 1867)
Sunius puglianus (Coiffait, 1961)
Sunius quadripennis (Casey, 1905)
Sunius reuteri Assing, 2017
Sunius rufipes
Sunius rugithorax Hatch, 1957
Sunius seminiger (Fairmaire, 1860)
Sunius sexpinosus Assing, 2006
Sunius simoni (Quedenfeldt, 1881)
Sunius tenerifensis (H.Franz, 1979)
Sunius unicolor Mulsant & Rey, 1878
Sunius valentianus (Coiffait, 1980)
Sunius yagmuri
Sunius yamani Anlaş, 2018
† Sunius demersus von Heyden & von Heyden, 1866

References

"Sunius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
"Sunius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

"Sunius genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

Frank, J. H.; Ahn, K. J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.

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