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Species Gauropterus fulgidus

Unknown Rove beetle - Gauropterus fulgidus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea (Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles)

Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)

Subfamily Staphylininae (Large Rove Beetles)

Tribe Xantholinini

Genus Gauropterus

Species fulgidus (Gauropterus fulgidus)

Explanation of Names

Gauropterus fulgidus (Fabricius 1787)

Range

native to Europe, now nearly cosmopolitan; adventive in NA (earliest specimen from Boston, MA 1894; introduced to the west coast much later)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the subfamily Xantholininae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Smetana A. 1982. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 114: 1-389.

Contributed by v belov on 27 May, 2009 - 7:50pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 1 May, 2013 - 7:09pm

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