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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Flat Rove Beetles (Piestinae) » Siagonium

Genus Siagonium

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Rove 3 - Siagonium americanum Siagonium punctatum male, lateral - Siagonium punctatum - male Siagonium punctatum male, ventral - Siagonium punctatum - male horned staphylinid - Siagonium piestine rove beetle - Siagonium americanum - male piestine rove beetle - Siagonium americanum - male piestine rove beetle - Siagonium americanum - female beetle062518b - Siagonium
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Piestinae (Flat Rove Beetles)
Genus Siagonium
Explanation of Names
Siagonium Kirby & Spence 1815
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), >20 total(2)
Identification
Key to NA species(3):
1. Elytra with a single punctate stria near suture, finely strigulose elsewhere............americanum Melsh. [Widespread]
Elytra with 4-5 punctate striae,with strigulose sculpture only apically .......................2
2. Pronotum between the punctures either smooth or strigulose.....punctatum LeC. [Widespread]
Pronotum between the punctures alutaceous......................stacesmithi Hatch [Western]
Range
Holarctic & Oriental; widespread in NA(1)(2)(3)
Habitat
under bark of decaying trees, esp. conifers(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Newton A.F., Thayer M.K. Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea [online]
3.The Distribution of Siagonium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in North America
Ian Moore. 1975. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society.
Contributed by Stephen_WV on 25 February, 2008 - 4:07pm
Additional contributions by Matt Bertone, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 28 July, 2022 - 3:49pm

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