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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Sphaeridiinae » Megasternini » Cercyon » Subgenus Cercyon (Cercyon Subgenus Cercyon) » Cercyon quisquilius

Species Cercyon quisquilius

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
Water beetle (3) - Cercyon quisquilius Cercyon quisquilius? - Cercyon quisquilius Nice little Hdrophilid.... - Cercyon quisquilius Cercyon? - Cercyon quisquilius Cercyon quisquilius? - Cercyon quisquilius Cercyon? - Cercyon quisquilius Cercyon? - Cercyon quisquilius small dung beetle - Cercyon quisquilius
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 Cercyon
No Taxon (Subgenus Cercyon)
Species quisquilius (Cercyon quisquilius)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cercyon quisquilius (Linnaeus 1761)
Orig. Comb: Scarabaeus quisquilius Linnaeus 1761
Explanation of Names
quisquilius - Latin for 'related to refuse/trash' (1)
Size
1.9-2.6 mm (BG data)
Range
Widespread from so. Canada to n. Mexico (2)
Native to (and common across) the Palaearctic, introduced to N. Amer. ca. 1920
Habitat
Under decaying plant matter and in excrements, esp. those of herbivorous mammals (3)(4)
Season
Apr-Aug (BG data)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
2.Revision of the subfamily Sphaeridiinae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
Smetana A. 1978. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 105: 1–292.
3.Coleoptera Poloniae
4.Occurrence of introduced species of the genus Cercyon (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) in the Neotropical Region
M. Fikáček. 2009. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 68: 351-357.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 30 March, 2007 - 9:36am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 October, 2012 - 7:30am

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