Species Ocypus aeneocephalus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

large rove beetle - Ocypus aeneocephalus

Staphylinidae beetle ID? - Ocypus aeneocephalus

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 Staphylinina

Genus Ocypus

Species aeneocephalus (Ocypus aeneocephalus)

Explanation of Names

Ocypus aeneocephalus (De Geer 1774)

Identification

With the banded hair pattern on the abdomen, O.aeneocephalus may only be confused with some species of Platydracus (which usually have the abdomen tipped red). --Boris Büche

adult habitus(1)

Range

native to Europe(2), adventive in NA: sw. BC(3) & WA (BG data)

Remarks

earliest NA record: BC 1932(3)

Works Cited

1.	WCG – Website of the Watford Coleoptera Group

2.	Coleoptera Poloniae

3.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 29 July, 2007 - 12:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 5 March, 2013 - 6:59am

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