Twenty new species of Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Groll, Elisa Von (2025): Twenty new species of Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy 990: 1-145, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.990.2903, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2903/13151 Abstract. Scaphidiinae (shining fungus beetles) is a subfamily of Staphylinidae generally associated with fungi and slime moulds.

They are distributed worldwide, but the Brazilian fauna is poorly known. In this manuscript, twenty new species assigned to five genera are described: Cyparium fugitivum sp. nov., Alexidia convivalis sp. nov., A. solitaria sp. nov., Baeocera ardua sp. nov., B. bottine sp. nov., B. colibri sp. nov., B. facilis sp. nov., B. inusitata sp. nov., B. pulga sp. nov., Scaphisoma hilarum sp. nov., S. infinitum sp. nov., S. mutabile sp. nov., S. peculiare sp. nov., Toxidium brigadeirense sp. nov., T. distortum sp. nov., T. fleche sp. nov., T. inusitatum sp. nov., T. scalenum sp. nov., T. speratum sp. nov. and T. ultimum sp. nov.