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Species Megasternum concinnum

Megasternum obscurum (Marsham) - Megasternum concinnum Megasternum obscurum (Marsham) - Megasternum concinnum Megasternum concinnum Water Scavenger Beetle- maybe Megasternum posticatum - Megasternum concinnum Water Scavenger Beetle- maybe Megasternum posticatum - Megasternum concinnum Water Scavenger Beetle- maybe Megasternum posticatum - Megasternum concinnum Megasternum obscurum (Marsham) - Megasternum concinnum Megasternum obscurum (Marsham) - Megasternum concinnum
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 Megasternum
Species concinnum (Megasternum concinnum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
obscurum Marsham 1802
Explanation of Names
Megasternum concinnum (Marsham 1802)
Size
1.7-2.2 mm
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (BC)(1)(2)
Habitat
moist situations in leaf litter, dung, rotting fungi, etc.(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.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I
Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.
3.Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by v belov on 6 March, 2014 - 9:27pm

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