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Tribe Lomechusini

Small, Orange, and Common - Apalonia seticornis

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 Aleocharinae

Tribe Lomechusini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

several genera, incl. Tetradonia Wasmann, recently moved to Athetini(1)

Identification

habitus photos of all our spp. of Zyras group of genera in(2)

Works Cited

1.	Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini– Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta) Elven H., Bachmann L., Gusarov V.I. 2012. Zoologica Scripta 41: 617–636.

2.	Canadian species of the Zyras group of genera and review of the types from America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae... Klimaszewski J., Pelletier G., Maruyama M., Hlaváč P. 2005. Rev. Suisse Zool. 112: 703-733.

Contributed by v belov on 5 January, 2011 - 9:16am
Last updated 30 April, 2013 - 8:17am

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