The Afrotropical Scopaeus paludicola species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), a primitive lineage of the genus

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Frisch defines and revises the Afrotropical Scopaeus paludicola group, redescribes six species and describes five new South African species. The work designates lectotypes for S. paludicola and S. p. pallipes, provides an identification key and distribution map, and proposes a revised hypothesis for the basal phylogeny of Scopaeus.

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Year: 2026
Journal: Soil Organisms
Volume: 98
Issue: 1
Pages / article: 97–131
Publication date: 1 April 2026
DOI: 10.25674/503
Publisher: Official publisher page
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Library copy: Open PDF on Google Drive Johannes Frisch (2026). The Afrotropical Scopaeus paludicola species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), a primitive lineage of the genus. Soil Organisms 98(1): 97–131. DOI: 10.25674/503. Source: https://soil-organisms.org/SO/article/view/503. The PDF is provided unchanged. CC BY 4.0
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Taxa and geography

Subfamily: Paederinae Fleming, 1821
Tribe: Lathrobiini Laporte, 1835
Genus: Scopaeus Erichson, 1839
Species: Scopaeus jeanneli Levasseur, 1981, Scopaeus insidiosus Fagel, 1973, Scopaeus ludificatus Fagel, 1973, Scopaeus nigerrimus Cameron, 1945, Scopaeus paludicola Cameron, 1945, Scopaeus transvaalensis Fagel, 1973, Scopaeus bikoi Frisch, 2026, Scopaeus capensis Frisch, 2026, Scopaeus endrodyi Frisch, 2026, Scopaeus rectiphallatus Frisch, 2026, Scopaeus uhligorum Frisch, 2026
Subspecies: Scopaeus paludicola pallipes Cameron, 1945

Biogeographic region: Afrotropical region

Countries: Kenya, South Africa

Work type: taxonomic revision, new species, redescription, lectotype designation, identification key, phylogenetic hypothesis

Keywords: new species, redescriptions, phylogeny, Scopaeina, southern Africa