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Megasternum concinnum
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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)
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1
)
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2
)
Habitat
moist situations in leaf litter, dung, rotting fungi, etc.
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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