Review of the genus Arpedium Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini), with descriptions of five new species

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A broad Holarctic revision combining five new species with synonymy, lectotype designation and an identification key. All fourteen species enumerated by the official abstract are indexed, while wider geographic and nomenclatural detail remains conservatively summarised.

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Year: 2026
Journal: Zootaxa
Volume: 5778
Issue: 1
Pages / article: 1–102
Publication date: 20 March 2026
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5778.1.1
Publisher: Official publisher page
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Taxa and geography

Subfamily: Omaliinae MacLeay, 1825
Tribe: Anthophagini Thomson, 1859
Genus: Arpedium Erichson, 1839
Species: Arpedium quadrum (Gravenhorst, 1806), Arpedium angulare Fauvel, 1878, Arpedium assingi Shavrin, 2026, Arpedium cribratum Fauvel, 1878, Arpedium ryvkini Shavrin, 2026, Arpedium schuelkei Shavrin, 2026, Arpedium brachypterum (Gravenhorst, 1802), Arpedium brunnescens J. Sahlberg, 1871, Arpedium tenue (LeConte, 1863), Arpedium puncticolle J. Sahlberg, 1880, Arpedium ludgeri Assing, 2007, Arpedium tianshanicum Shavrin, 2026, Arpedium schwarzi Fauvel, 1878, Arpedium thayerae Shavrin, 2026

Biogeographic regions: Holarctic region, Palaearctic region

Reported locality: North America

Work type: taxonomic revision, new species, synonymy, lectotype designation, identification key

Keywords: Coleoptera, rove beetles, Anthobium group, taxonomic revision, new taxa, lectotypes, keys, distribution, Holarctic, Palaearctic, Asia, North America