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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Quedius plagiatus

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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 Quediina
Genus Quedius
No Taxon (subgenus Quedionuchus)
Species plagiatus (Quedius plagiatus)
Explanation of Names
Quedius plagiatus Mannerheim 1843
Range
Holarctic; in NA, transcontinental in the north (NS-BC-AK-NT)(1) [US range TBA]
Habitat
under bark of dead trees, usually conifers(1)
Works Cited
1.New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick [...]: Staphylininae
Webster R.P., Smetana A, Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 186: 293-348.