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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Spiny-legged Rove Beetles (Oxytelinae) » Oxytelini » Anotylus » Anotylus insecatus

Species Anotylus insecatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Rove beetle 1 - Anotylus insecatus Anotylus insecatus (Gravenhorst, 1806) - Anotylus insecatus Rove beetle - Anotylus insecatus Rove beetle - Anotylus insecatus Anotylus insecatus? - Anotylus insecatus
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 Oxytelinae (Spiny-legged Rove Beetles)
Tribe Oxytelini
Genus Anotylus
Species insecatus (Anotylus insecatus)
Explanation of Names
Anotylus insecatus (Gravenhorst 1806)
Identification
primarily subterranean, in dung and other decaying organic matter, incl. plant bulbs/roots infested with dipteran larvae; also at sap flows(1)
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA: so. Canada (NS-AB) + CA(1)(2)
Habitat
bulbs of onions, tulips, and radishes(2)
Food
dipteran larvae(1)
Remarks
introduced ca. 1950s(1)
Print References
(3)
Works Cited
1.Introduced Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Klimaszewski J. 2008. The Canadian Entomologist 140: 48-72.
2.New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada: Scaphidiinae, Piestinae, Osorinae...
Webster R.P., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 186: 239-262.
3.The First Record of the Palearctic Species Anotylus insecatus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae) from North America
J. M. Campbell and A. D. Tomlin. 1983. The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 309-313.
Contributed by v belov on 2 March, 2011 - 2:23pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 12 November, 2021 - 4:21pm

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