A new apterous rove beetle genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Northern Andes with an assessment of its phylogenetic position

A remarkable new apterous genus of Xanthopygina beetles is described here as Ikaros gen. nov. The includes three species, I. apteros et sp. from Colombia, paramo Colombia and polygonos Venezuela. Phylogenetic analyses using molecular morphological data were performed to assess the phylogenetic position whether taxa formed a monophyletic group. All analyses, including those with aptery-associated characters removed, strongly supported monophyly could not be confidently resolved member any existing genus-group lineages, likely due lack signal in backbone tree. Further ideally data, are needed determine