Species Cercyon analis

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

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 Paracercyon)

Species analis (Cercyon analis)

Explanation of Names

Cercyon analis (Paykull 1798)

Size

1.5‒2.1 mm(1)

Identification

Body elongate, tapered posteriorly; mesosternum broadened posteriorly, not tapered to a point at contact with the elevated portion of the metasternum; both meso- and metasterna finely punctate.

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(2), adventive in NA (now transcontinental) and elsewhere

Works Cited

1.	Review of the Family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska Ales Smetana. 1988. Entomological Society of Canada.

2.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.

Contributed by Tim Loh on 18 March, 2010 - 8:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 12:01am

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