Species Euplectus karstenii

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 Pselaphinae (Ant-loving Beetles)

Supertribe Euplectitae

Tribe Euplectini

Genus Euplectus

Species karstenii (Euplectus karstenii)

Explanation of Names

Euplectus karstenii (Reichenbach 1816)

Range

native to, and widespread across Europe(1), adventive in NA (transcontinental in Canada)(2)(3)

Habitat

forested areas; under plant debris (incl. compost, grass clippings, spilled grain) & in rotting wood, often in association with ants(1)(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: IA before 1894(4)

Works Cited

1.	Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae

2.	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.

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.	Introduced Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada Majka C.G., Klimaszewski J. 2008. The Canadian Entomologist 140: 48-72.

Contributed by v belov on 11 February, 2014 - 5:27pm

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