Ant-Loving Beetles

Pselaphinae gen. indet.

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 1257

(after Hangay & Zborowski 2010): They are reddish or yellowish beetles of distinctive shape, 0.75-3.5mm in length, and can be distinguished from most other staphylinids by their non-flexible and stout abdomen of which usually 5 or 6 sternites are visible. Their antennae are clubbed, often with less than 11 segments and the maxillary palpi are usually long. The tarsal formula is 3-3-3 or less. Antennal and tarsal segments sometimes are reduced to the minimal, in some species are fused and these seemingly have only one segment of either or both organs.