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Species Cryptopleurum minutum

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Hydrophilidae (Water Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Sphaeridiinae
Tribe Megasternini
Genus Cryptopleurum
Species minutum (Cryptopleurum minutum)
Explanation of Names
Cryptopleurum minutum (Fabricius 1775)
Size
1.6-2 mm
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive and widespread in NA (across the north south to FL-IN-CA](1)(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
3.California Beetle Project
Contributed by Boris Büche on 24 January, 2008 - 5:08am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 6 December, 2022 - 7:19pm

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