Aenictobia siamensis (lat.) - a species of myrmecophilous beetles - staphylinids from the Aleocharinae subfamily. Endemic to Thailand [1] .
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Description
Small-sized, short - winged staphilinus beetles. Body length about 2 mm. The main color is reddish brown. Antennae 11-segmented. They live together with nomadic ants of the species Aenictus hodgsoni Forel , 1901 (genus Aenictus ) [1] .
Systematics
The species was first described in 2014 by the Japanese entomologist M. Maruyama ( Maruyama M .; The Kyushu University Museum, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan ) based on materials from Khao Yai National Park ( Thailand ) and included in tribes Aenictoteratini . Together with the species Aenictobia longicornis Seevers, 1952 , Aenictobia thoi Kistner & Jacobson, 1975 , Aenictobia ferugsoni Kistner, 1997 forms the genus Aenictobia Seevers, 1953 [1] .
See also
- Aenictosymbia cornuta Maruyama, 2014 ( Lomechusini )
- Aenictoxenides mirabilis Maruyama, 2014 (Pygostenini).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Munetoshi Maruyama, Komatsu T., Katayama Y., Song XB, Sakchoowong W. Myrmecophilous rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus hodgsoni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Thailand, with description of two new genera and three species. (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2014 .-- Vol. 3796, no. 2 . - P. 361-373. - ISSN 1175-5326 . doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa.3796.2.8.
Literature
- Herman L. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. Parts I — VII (Eng.) // Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: Journal. - 2001. - Vol. 265. - P. 1-4218 (in 7 vols.).
- Kistner, DH & Jacobson, HR A review of the myrmecophilous Staphylinidae associated with Aenictus in Africa and the Orient (Coleoptera; Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with notes on their behavior and glands // Sociobiology: Journal. - 1975 .-- Vol. 1. - P. 20–73.
- Kistner, DH, Maschwitz, U. & Witte, V. New records of aenictophiles including a new genus and species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (Eng.) // Sociobiology: Journal. - 2009. - Vol. 53. - P. 13–26.
- Kistner, DH, Weissflog, A., Rościszewski, K. & Maschwitz, U. New species, new genera, and new records of myrmecophiles associated with army ants (Aenictus sp.) With the description of a new subtribe of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera; Hymenoptera, Formicidae) (Eng.) // Sociobiology: Journal. - 1997. - Vol. 29. - P. 123–221.
- Maruyama, M., Matsumoto, T. & Itioka, T. Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) associated with Aenictus laeviceps (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Sarawak, Malaysia: strict host specificity, and first myrmecoid Aleocharini (English) // Zootaxa : Magazine. - 2011. - Vol. 3102. - P. 1–26.
- Seevers, CH Two genera of myrmecophilous Staphylinidae from the Philippines // Philippine Journal of Science: Journal. - 1953. - Vol. 81. - P. 125–131 + 1 pl ..
- Seevers, CH The systematics, evolution and zoogeography of staphylinid beetles associated with army ants (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae ) // Fieldiana: Zoology: Journal. - 1965. - Vol. 47. - P. 138–351.