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Species Rugilus orbiculatus

Staph- Rugilus orbiculatus? - Rugilus orbiculatus

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Rugilus orbiculatus? - Rugilus orbiculatus - male

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 Paederinae

Tribe Lathrobiini

Subtribe Stilicina

Genus Rugilus

Species orbiculatus (Rugilus orbiculatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

latiusculus Casey 1885, oregonus Casey 1905

Explanation of Names

Rugilus orbiculatus (Paykull 1789)

Size

3.5-4.5 mm(1)

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(2), adventive in NA and now widespread in ne. US (to KS) & ON as well as in w. NA (AK-CA-UT)(3)(1) and other continents(4)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: before 1905

Works Cited

1.	Three Palearctic species of Rugilus Leach in North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae)... Hoebeke E.R. 1995. Insecta Mundi 9: 69-89.

2.	Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae

3.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

4.	de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.

Contributed by v belov on 15 February, 2011 - 5:48pm
Last updated 16 March, 2015 - 11:22am

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