Sternocoelis

The genus Sternocoelis Lewis, 1888 is a small genus of myrmecophilous histerids with 27 described species distributed in the Mediterranean area with most species described from Morocco and Algeria.

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  Sternoceolis berberus

List of Hetaerius and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Sternocoelis acutangulus	(Lewis, 1887)	ants	Morocco
Sternoceolis alluaudi	Théry, 1921	ants	Morocco
Sternocoelis arachnoides	Fairmaire, 1877	ants	Morocco
Sternocoelis bedeii	Lewis, 1884	ants	Algeria, Morocco
Sternocoelis berberus	Lackner et Yélamos, 2001	Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa	Morocco
Sternocoelis comosellus	(Fairmaire, 1883)	ants
Sternocoelis diversepunctuatus	Pic, 1911	ants
Sternocoelis espadaleri	Yélamos, 1995	ants	Morocco
Sternocoelis fusculus	(Schmidt, 1888)	ants	Morocco
Sternocoelis grandis	(Reitter, 1883)	ants
Sternocoelis hispanicus	Rosenhauer, 1856	Aphaenogaster senilis	Morocco, Portugal, Spain
Sternocoelis incisus	(Schmidt, 1885)	ants
Sternocoelis laevidorsis	(Fairmaire, 1876)	ants
Sternocoelis lewisi	(Reitter, 1883)	ants
Sternocoelis marginalis	Normand, 1915	ants
Sternocoelis marseulii	(Brisout de Barneville, 1866)	ants	Spain
Sternocoelis merklii	(Schmidt, 1885)	Messor structor	Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey
Sternocoelis otini	Peyerimhoff, 1949	Cataglyphis mauritanica	Morocco (type)
Sternocoelis pluristriatus	(Fairmaire, 1876)	ants
Sternocoelis puberulus	(Motschulsky, 1858)	ants
Sternocoelis punctulatus	(Lucas, 1855)	ants
Sternocoelis robustus	Pic, 1911	ants
Sternocoelis setulosus	Reitter, 1872	ants	Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Sternocoelis slaoui	Théry, 1921	Aphaenogaster
Sternocoelis sulcaticollis	Pic, 1937	ants
Sternoceolis vaucheri	Lewis, 1896	ants	Morocco
Sternocoelis viaticus	Lewis, 1892	ants	Algeria
Sternocoelis yelamosi	Lackner and Hlavác, 2012	ants	Morocco

REFERENCES

• Lackner, T. & P. Hlavac. 2012. Description of a new species of Sternocoelis from Morocco with proposal of the Sternocoelis marseulii species group (Coleoptera, Histeridae). Zookeys (181):11-21.

• Lackner T, Yélamos T. (2001) Contribution to the knowledge of the Moroccan fauna of Sternocoelis Lewis, 1888 and Eretmotus Lacordaire, 1854 (Coleoptera: Histeridae). ZAPATERI, Revista Aragonesa de Entomologia 9: 99-102.

• Mazur, S. 1984. A world catalogue of Histeridae. Pois. Pismo Ent., 54, 3-4: 1-379

• Mazur S. (1997) A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Genus, Supplement, 373 pp.

• Yélamos T. (1995) Revision of the genus Sternocoelis Lewis, 1888 (Coleoptera: Histeridae), with a proposed phylogeny. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 102 (1): 113-174.