Fustiger

This is a myrmecophilous genus of Staphylinidae with species. All are inquilines in the nests of ants.

List of *Fustiger* and their Host Ants
Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution
Fustiger amazonicus	(Westwood, 1869)	ants	Brazil, Bolivia
Fustiger appendiculatus	Besuchet, 1977	ants	Bhutan
Fustiger barroi	(Bierig, 1945)	ants	Cuba
Fustiger baudriti	Bierig, 1945	ants?
Fustiger brasiliensis	(Westwood, 1856)	ants?
Fustiger clavipilis	Mann, 1921	Wasmannia auropunctata	Honduras
Fustiger cornicen	Reichensperger, 1933	ants
Fustiger cribratus	Mann, 1920	Pheidole knowlesi	Fiji
Fustiger elegans	Raffray, 1908	ants	Argentina
Fustiger fauveli	(Raffray, 1898)	ants
Fustiger festivus	(L.W.Schaufuss, 1880)	ants
Fustiger frater	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger fuchsii	Brendel, 1866	Crematogaster lineolata	Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee
Fustiger gounellei	Raffray, 1909	ants
Fustiger haytianus	Mann, 1915	Aphaenogaster relicta	Haiti
Fustiger henrici	Reichensperger, 1933	ants	Costa Rica
Fustiger hetschkoi	Reitter, 1888	ants
'Fustiger indicus	Wasmann, 1918	ants
Fustiger insignis	Reichensperger, 1931	ants	Costa Rica
Fustiger jamaicaensis	O.Park, 1976	ants	Jamaica
Fustiger knausii	Schaeffer, 1906	Crematogaster cerasi, Lasius	Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico
Fustiger levuanus	Mann, 1920	Nylanderia bourbonica	Fiji
Fustiger luteorofus	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger microlophus	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger nitidus	Bryant, 1915	ants
Fustiger oglobini	Bruch, 1931	ants	Argentina
Fustiger pleuralis	(Jeannel, 1952)	ants
Fustiger raffrayi	Mann, 1920	Pheidole knowlesi	Fiji
Fustiger recticornis	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger reichenspergeri	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger reitteri	Wasmann, 1893	ants
Fustiger schmidti	Reichensperger, 1931	ants	Costa Rica
Fustiger schwarzi	Mann, 1918	ants	Cuba
Fustiger smithi	Raffray, 1905	ants
Fustiger stricticornis	(Reitter, 1883)	Crematogaster	CUBA, VIRGIN IS. (ST. THOMAS)
Fustiger substriatus	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger sulciceps	Bierig, 1945	ants
Fustiger testudineus	L.W.Schaufuss, 1882	ants
Fustiger turkmenicus	(Kryzhanovskij, 1957)	ants
Fustiger veracruzensis	O.Park, 1942	ants	Mexico
Fustiger vitiensis	Mann, 1920	Pheidole knowlesi	Fiji
Fustiger wasmanni	Mann, 1920	Pheidole knowlesi	Fiji
Fustiger wittmeri	Besuchet, 1977	ants

REFERENCES

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Bierig, A. Nuevos Clavigeridae (Col.) de Costa Rica y Cuba. Edicion Especial, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. 15 pp. (1945).

Brendel, E. Descriptions of new Scydmaenidae and Pselaphidae. Entomologica Americana, 5 (10-11): 193-197. (1889).

Bryant, G. E. New species of Pselaphidae, sub-fam. Clavigerinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 51: 211-215, pl. 19. (1915).

Kryzhanovskij, O. L. Noviy vid mirmekofil'nogo zhuka iz Turkmenskoy SSR - Commatocerus turkmenicus, sp. n. (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae, Fustigerini). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 36 (5): 715-718. (1957).

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Mann, W. M. Ant guests from Fiji and the British Solomon Islands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 13 (1): 60-69. (1920).

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