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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Crab-like Rove Beetles (Tachyporinae) » Tachyporini » Sepedophilus

Genus Sepedophilus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
on the pond edge - Sepedophilus beetle - Sepedophilus scriptus Tachyporine Rove Beetle - Sepedophilus marshami Staphylinidae 23 - Sepedophilus Sepedophilus sp - Sepedophilus - female Sepedophilus cinctulus? - Sepedophilus crab-like rove beetle--genus Sepedophilus - Sepedophilus Sepedophilus
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 Tachyporinae (Crab-like Rove Beetles)
Tribe Tachyporini
Genus Sepedophilus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=Conosoma
Explanation of Names
Sepedophilus Gistel 1856
'decay loving'
Numbers
30 spp. (incl. 3 adventive from Europe) in our area; >350 spp. worldwide(1)(2)
Identification
revised in(3)
evenly covered by quite distinct, though short, setae, giving it a muted/dull appearance (Cilea and Coproporus are quite glistening/glabrous dorsally) --D.S. Chandler
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
Habitat
mainly in forest leaf litter/debris and under bark; some associated with polypore or fleshy fungi(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Newton A.F., Thayer M.K. Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea [online]
3.A Revision of the Genus Sepedophilus Gistel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of America North of Mexico
J.M. Campbell. 1976. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada.
Contributed by Stephen_WV on 2 December, 2005 - 4:01am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 April, 2013 - 5:09pm

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