Priochirus unicolor
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| Priochirus unicolor | |
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| Priochirus unicolor from Sumatra. Mounted specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
| Family: | Staphylinidae |
| Genus: | Priochirus |
| Species: | P. unicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Priochirus unicolor | |
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Priochirus unicolor is a species of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae. This species can be found in Indonesia.[1]
Francis de Laporte de Castelnau described this species in 1835, placing it in the genus Leptochirus.[3] It continued to be classified in this genus by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1840)[6] and Albert Fauvel (1905).[7] Those who placed it in the genus Priochirus included Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller (1898).[4]
Malcolm Cameron classified it in the Triacanthochirus subgenus of Priochirus.[8]
As per a 1920 designation by Robert Lucas, it is the type species of the subgenus Eutriacanthus Jakobson, 1908.[9]
In 2007, Jie Wu and Hong-Zhang Zhou transferred this species to the genus Plastus;[10] this has been accepted by the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.[11]
Distribution
Its type locality is Java.[3] Fauvel wrote that its range included Sumatra, the Banggai Islands, Mentawai Islands, Bodjo, Borneo, Malacca, Cambodje.[7]
In 1898, Heller listed its distribution as Java and the Mentawai Islands.[4]
P. J. M. Greenslade described its range as comprising Indochina, Sumatra, and Java.[9]
Wu and Zhao reported observing it in Yunnan Province, China;[2] they also listed Vietnam as part of its range.[10]
