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Genus Aleochara

Staph 124 - Aleochara Aleochara rove beetle - Aleochara Aleochara lustrica - male Aleochara? - Aleochara Aleochara sculptiventris Aleochara daviesi - female Staphylinidae - Aleochara
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 Aleocharini
Genus Aleochara
Explanation of Names
Aleochara Gravenhorst 1802
Numbers
53 spp. (incl. several adventive) in 7 subgenera in our area; ~450 spp. in 20 subgenera worldwide(1)(2)
Identification
see (3)
Range
worldwide(1)(2)
Food
Adults are primarily predators of dipteran eggs, larvae, and pupae in dung, carrion, rotting fungi, seaweed, or cacti; larvae parasitize cyclorrhaphan puparia in those habitats(1)
Remarks
A. bilineata is used in biological control of root maggots