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Species Nitidula rufipes

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Nitidula rufipes

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Nitidulinae
Tribe Nitidulini
No Taxon (Nitidula complex)
Genus Nitidula
Species rufipes (Nitidula rufipes)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

may turn out to be synonymous with N. nigra Schaeffer 1911

Explanation of Names

Nitidula rufipes (Linnaeus 1767)

Size

2.0-4.6 mm(1)

Range

adventive across n. NA (NF-AK south to PA-KS-MT) - Map (2)(3), native across the Palaearctic

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NW 1825(4)
"across the Palaearctic & the forests of NA south to SD & CO and along the Rockies; towards the north, a form occurs known as N. nigra Schaeffer 1911, non Ragusa 1892 whose only differences are being generally darker, dark-legged, and slightly smaller in average" (Kireichuk, translated from Russian by =v=)

Works Cited

1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
2.Nitidulidae and Kateretidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada 1: New records from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island...
Majka C.G., Cline A.R. 2006. The Canadian Entomologist 138: 314-332.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada
Majka C.G., Webster R., Cline A.R. 2008. ZooKeys 2: 337-356.
Contributed by v belov on 13 February, 2014 - 7:02pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 9 July, 2023 - 2:37pm

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