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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Philonthina » Cafius » Cafius canescens

Species Cafius canescens

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Rove Beetle, Aleocharinae? - Cafius canescens

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 Staphylininae (Large Rove Beetles)

Tribe Staphylinini

Subtribe Philonthina

Genus Cafius

Species canescens (Cafius canescens)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Philonthus canescens Mäklin 1852, Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscow, 25:313.

Explanation of Names

Cafius canescens (Mäklin 1852)

Identification

useful in photo discrimination of C. canescens/seminitens is the nature of

acrocostal sutures on abdomen (the fine line bordering the anteriour margin of terga):

straight in C. canescens, wavy in C. seminitens; well seen:

(different habitus is purely sexual!)

Range

AK to Baja(1)

Remarks

Detailed description of C. canescens from Orth & Moore here.

Print References

R.E. Orth and Ian Moore (1980). A revision of the species of Cafius Curtis from the west coast of North America with notes of the east coast species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 19: 181-211 (Read online at BHL)

Internet References

Type images for Philonthus (=Cafius) canescens from the MCZ.

Figure 1B here from Orth & Moore dipicts dorsal aspect of C. canescens.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the species of Cafius from the west coast of North America with notes of the east coast species... Orth R.E., Moore I. 1980. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 19: 181-211.

Contributed by v belov on 28 February, 2011 - 6:23pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 19 March, 2021 - 6:19am

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