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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Minute Moss Beetles (Hydraenidae) » Ochthebiinae » Gymnochthebius » Gymnochthebius fossatus

Species Gymnochthebius fossatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Gymnochthebius fossatus (LeConte) - Gymnochthebius fossatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea (Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles)
Family Hydraenidae (Minute Moss Beetles)
Subfamily Ochthebiinae
Genus Gymnochthebius
Species fossatus (Gymnochthebius fossatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gymnochthebius fossatus (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Ochthebius fossatus LeConte 1855
Numbers
7 Nearctic spp. (1)
Identification

Det. P. D. Perkins, 2013
Range
AZ-TX-KS, FL / Mex. to S. Amer. (2),(3),(Jäch 1994)
See Also
Gymnochthebius nitidus (LeConte)
Print References
Jäch, M.A. 1994. Descriptions of new species of Hydraenidae (Coleoptera) from Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma, with faunistic and taxonomic notes on the family in Texas. The Coleopterists Bulletin 48: 301-308.
LeConte, J.L. 1855. Synopsis of the Hydrophilidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 7: 356-375.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
3.Checklists of Spiders, Mites, and Insects of Oklahoma
Contributed by v belov on 29 January, 2013 - 12:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 13 July, 2017 - 10:41pm

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