Chimalfus and Liracoxa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), two new genera from southern south America with a geometric morphometric evaluation of head and pronotal chaetotaxy

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Larsen, Anna Reinhold, Solodovnikov, Alexey, Reyes-Hernández, José L. (2025): Chimalfus and Liracoxa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), two new genera from southern south America with a geometric morphometric evaluation of head and pronotal chaetotaxy. Zoologischer Anzeiger 316 (8): 85-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2025.03.002, URL: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.03.002 ABSTRACT Based on the ongoing phylogenetic study of the subtribe Amblyopinina, two new genera are described, Chimalfus gen. nov. and Liracoxa gen. nov. to accommodate three species earlier misplaced in the genus Sphingoquedius.

The resulting new combinations are Chimalfus brevis (Saiz´, 1971) comb. nov., Chimalfus discoideus (Fairmaire and Germain, 1862) comb. nov., and Liracoxa nana (Saiz´, 1971) comb. nov. Furthermore, a new species, Chimalfus brunneus sp. nov., is described. For each species, taxonomic descriptions, illustrations, distributions, and bionomics are provided.