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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Quediina » Quedius » subgenus Microsaurus (Quedius subgenus Microsaurus) » erythrogaster group (Quedius erythrogaster group) » Quedius alesi

Species Quedius alesi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Microsaurus)
No Taxon (erythrogaster group)
Species alesi (Quedius alesi)
Explanation of Names
Quedius alesi Brunke, 2020(1)
Range
Eastern Canada, south to VA, AL, OK(1)
Habitat
Common in caves in eastern N. America, previously reported as Q. erythrogaster. Also mammal burrows, beaver lodges, bird nests, tree holes, litter, carrion(1).
Remarks
Previously identified as Q. erythrogaster in literature. That species as currently defined only occurs in western N. America(1)
Works Cited
1.An integrative taxonomic review of the Quedius erythrogaster Mannerheim species group in North America
A.J. Brunke, A. Zmudzinska, and J. Buffam. 2020. The Coleopterists Bulletin 74(4): 897-921.
Contributed by Curt Harden on 12 January, 2021 - 1:09pm

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