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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Unmargined Rove Beetles (Osoriinae) » Thoracophorini » Thoracophorus

Genus Thoracophorus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
tiny wrinkled rove - Thoracophorus costalis Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson) - Thoracophorus costalis Thoracophorus costalis Thoracophorus brevicristatus (Horn) - Thoracophorus brevicristatus Thoracophorus sp.? - Thoracophorus costalis Thoracophorus costalis Unknown beetle - Thoracophorus costalis rove beetle – Thoracophorus costalis? - Thoracophorus costalis
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 Osoriinae (Unmargined Rove Beetles)
Tribe Thoracophorini
Genus Thoracophorus
Explanation of Names
Thoracophorus Motschulsky 1837
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, >50 total(1)
Identification
Key to spp. in (1)
Range
T. brevicristatus - mostly coastal se US (Miami, FL to Brownsville, TX), also s. AZ (1)
T. costalis - mostly e. US w/ scattered w. records to AB-CO
T. guadalupensis - FL endemic
Habitat
under bark, in leaf litter, occasionally in woody fungi(2)
Works Cited
1.Review of the genus Thoracophorus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) in North America north of Mexico, with a key to species
Ferro, M.L. 2015. The Coleopterists Bulletin 69(1): 1–10.
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 13 May, 2006 - 4:59am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 19 November, 2020 - 9:41pm

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