GENERIC NAMES OF THE FAMILY STAPHYLINIDAE 49 



AMELINUS Bernhauer, 1915k, p. 300. 



Genotype : Amelinus gestroi Bernhauer. 

 Fixed by : Blackwelder, here, by subsequent designation. 

 AMENUSA Casey, 1906, p. 349. [Synonym of Diestota.] 

 Ocnotypc: Amenusa angustnla Casey. 

 Fixed by : Casey, 1906, p. 349, by monotypy. 

 Later citations: A. angustula Casey, by Fenyes, 1918, p. 21. 

 Synonyms: (See Diestota). 

 AMERISTOGLOSSA Bernhauer, 192Sa, p. 24. 



Genotype: Anieristoglossa mjvbergi Bernhauer. 

 Fixed by : Bernhauer, 1928a, p. 24, by monotypy. 

 AMICHORUS Sharp, 1884, p. 890. 



Genotype: Atnichorns fauveli Sharp. 

 Fixed by : Lucas, 1920, p. 89, by subsequent designation. 

 AMICHROTUS Sharp, 1889, p. 114. 



Genotype: Amichrotus apicipcnnis Sharp. 

 Fixed by : Sharp, 1889, p. 114, by monotypy. 

 Later citations : A. apicipennis Sharp, by Lucas, 1920, p. 89. 

 AMIDOBIA Thomson, 1858, p. 33. [Subgenus of Ischnopoda.} 

 Oenotype: Amidobia talpa (Heer) {Homalota). 

 Fixed by : Thomson, 1858, p. 33, by monotypy. 



Later citations: A. parallela (Mannerheim), by Thomson, 1859, p. 34, not 

 originally included. A. talpa (Heer), by Fenyes. 1918, p. 21; by Scheer- 

 peltz, 1929b, p. 245 ; 1934, p. 1637 ; by Tottenham, 1949, p. 395. 

 Disc^ission : The designation of parallela can be accepted only through the 



subjective synonymy of parallela and talpa. 

 Synonyms: (See Ischnopoda). 

 AMISAMMUS des Gozis, 1SS6, p. 15. [Subgenus of Carpelitnus.] 

 Genotype: Amisammus arcuatus (Stephens) (Trogophloeus). 

 Fixed by : des Gozis, 1886, p. 15, by original designation. 

 Later citations: A. arcuatus (Stephens), by Blackwelder, 1943, p. 58; by 



Tottenham, 1949b, p. 362. 

 Synonym s: ( See Co rpeVm us). 

 Variant spellings : 



Amisammus Bernhauer and Schubert, 1911, p. 95. 

 Notes : This name was proposed for the group which Mulsant and Rey 

 (1878c, p. 258) erroneously called Carpalimus. 

 AMISANIMUS [Error for Amisammus]. 

 AMISCHA Thomson, 1858, p. 33. 



Genotype: Amischa analis (Gravenhorst) (Aleochara). 



Fixed by : Thomson, 1858, p. 33, by monotypy. 



Later citations: A. analis (Gravenhorst), by Thomson, 1859, p. 34; by 



Fenyes, 1918, p. 21 ; by Tottenham, 1949b, p. 390. 

 Synonymic homonyms : 



Amischa Thomson, 1859, p. 34. 

 AMISCHA Thomson, 1860, p. 292. 

 Synonyms : 



CoLPOSURA Casey, 1893, p. 336. 



Abthropycna Bernhauer, 1921c, p. 162. [Subgenus.] 

 Metamischa Peyerimhoff, 1938, p. 65. [Subgenus.] 

 Variant spellings : 



Amischia Reclaire, 1930, p. 126. " 



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