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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Quediina » Quedius » subgenus Microsaurus (Quedius subgenus Microsaurus) » Quedius cruentus

Species Quedius cruentus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Unknown Rove beetle - Quedius cruentus Unknown Rove beetle - Quedius cruentus Red-tailed staphilinid - Quedius cruentus Quedius cruentus - male Quedius cruentus Quedius cruentus - dark form - Quedius cruentus Quedius cruentus - dark form - Quedius cruentus Quedius cruentus - dark form - Quedius cruentus
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 Staphylininae (Large Rove Beetles)
Tribe Staphylinini
Subtribe Quediina
Genus Quedius
No Taxon (subgenus Microsaurus)
Species cruentus (Quedius cruentus)
Explanation of Names
Quedius (Microsaurus) cruentus (Olivier 1795)
Range
native to w. Palaearctic, adventive in NA and now spread in ne. US (ME-MI to PA-OH) and QC(1)(Hoebeke 2008)
Remarks
earliest NA record: NY 1983(1)
Works Cited
1.Adventive species of Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in North America: a survey and new Canadian record
Majka C.G., Michaud J.-P., Moreau G. 2009. ZooKeys 22: 341–345.
Contributed by tom murray on 15 October, 2011 - 5:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 14 May, 2012 - 11:32am

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