Belongs within: Pericalina.
Philophloeus is an Australian genus of ground beetles with a long penultimate joint to the palpi, setulose-punctate interstices on the elytra, and simple, dorsally setulose tarsi with two or three joints in the males ventrally squamose.
Philophloeus Chaudoir 1844 [=Gomelina Blanchard 1853; incl. Idius Chaudoir 1869] LM87
|–*P. australis (Dejean 1826) [=Cymindis australis, *Gomelina australis] LM87
|–P. angulatus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. australasiae Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. bivittatus Sloane 1920 LM87
|–P. brunnipennis Macleay 1871 LM87
|–P. confertus Blackburn 1892 LM87
|–P. discorufus Sloane 1898 LM87
|–P. distinguendus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. eucalypti Germar 1848 [incl. P. grandiceps Chaudoir 1869, P. eucalypti tasmaniae Blackburn 1892] LM87
|–P. fuscipennis Germar 1848 LM87
|–P. immaculatus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. intermedius Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. laticollis Blackburn 1892 LM87
|–P. luculentus (Newman 1842) [=Lebia luculenta; incl. P. luculentus guttifera Sloane 1911] LM87
|–P. maculatus Macleay 1871 LM87
|–P. moestus (Chaudoir 1869) [=*Idius moestus] LM87
|–P. monticola Blackburn 1892 LM87
|–P. myrmecophilus Lea 1912 LM87
|–P. obtusus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. occidentalis Blackburn 1890 LM87
|–P. opaciceps Blackburn 1890 LM87
|–P. ornatus Blackburn 1892 [incl. P. truncatus Sloane 1898] LM87
|–P. planus (Newman 1840) [=Lebia plana] LM87
|–P. puberulus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. pygmaeus Blackburn 1892 LM87
|–P. quadripennis Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. rectangulus Chaudoir 1869 LM87
|–P. simsoni Sloane 1920 LM87
|–P. sydneyensis Blackburn 1892 LM87
|–P. unicolor Chaudoir 1869 LM87
`–P. vittatus Macleay 1871 LM87
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.