Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873

Genus Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873 View in CoL

Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 188 View in CoL (original description; type species: Taxicera perfoliata Mulsant & Rey, 1873 View in CoL (now junior synonym of Aleocara deplanata Gravenhorst, 1802 )); Brundin, 1943 (description); Smetana, 2004: 419 (catalogue); Kapp, 2005: 1282 (description); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 728 (catalogue); Newton, 2024 (catalogue).

Homalota (Taxicera) : Gozis, 1886: 12 (catalogue).

Atheta (Taxicera) : Ganglbauer, 1895: 208; Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 662 (catalogue).

Parataxicera Brundin, 1943 (original description, as subgenus of Taxicera View in CoL ; type species: Atheta moczarskii Bernhauer, 1914 ); Smetana, 2004: 419 (catalogue); Kapp, 2005: 1300 (as synonym of Taxicera View in CoL ); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 728 (catalogue); Newton, 2024 (catalogue as synonym of Taxicera View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Taxicerini is composed of three genera: Discerota Mulsant & Rey, 1873 ; Halobrecta Thomson, 1858 ; Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873 . Taxicera differs from Discerota Mulsant & Rey, 1873 by the shorter legs ( Kapp, 2005). Taxicera differs from Halobrecta Thomson, 1858 by the smaller or lacking umbilicus of spermatheca and shorter apical lobe of paramere (modified after Gusarov, 2004). Taxicera can be easily distinguished from Dalotia by the following characteristics: ligula not divided or divided apical 1/3 at most (figs. 34 & 35 in Brundin, 1943; 4, 24, 33, 41, 60, 67, 79 & 82 in Kapp, 2005) ( Brundin, 1943); spermatheca not coiled, with circular head (figs. 39 in Brundin, 1943; 10–14, 25, 30, 41, 54–58, 72 & 83 in Kapp, 2005); median lobe of male aedeagus without athetine bridge (figs. 40, 42 & 43 in Brundin, 1943; 46 in Kapp, 2005) ( Osswald et al., 2013).