Ctenophilothis

	Ctenophilothis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
The kingdom :	Eumetazo
No rank :	Bilateral symmetric
No rank :	Primordial
No rank :	Shedding
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Trachealis
Above class :	Six-legged
Class:	Insects
Subclass :	Winged insects
Infraclass :	New insects
Hoard :	Insects with full transformation
Nadotryad :	Coleopterida
Squad:	Beetles
Suborder :	Polyphagous beetles
Infrastructure :	Staphylineiform
Superfamily :	Hysteroid
Family:	Carapuziki
Subfamily :	Saprininae
Rod:	Ctenophilothis
International Scientific Name
	Ctenophilothis Kryzhanovskij , 1987
Typical view
	Xenonychus chobauti Théry, 1900

Ctenophilothis (lat.) Is a genus of the beetles of the subfamily Saprininae ( Histeridae ).

Content

Spread

Deserts of North Africa (Sahara: Algeria and Egypt ) ^[1] .

Description

Small beetles, an oval-shaped body, convex, about 2 mm long. It differs from other Saprininae in the complete absence of frontal grooves, numerous long teeth on the front tibiae, and a calyd eighth segment of the antennae. Specialized psammophils. First singled out by the Soviet and Russian entomologist Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky (1918-1997) ^[1] ^[2] .

Types

Some species of the genus:

Ctenophilothis altus (Lewis, 1885)
Ctenophilothis chobauti (Théry, 1900)

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Tomáš Lackner. Review of the Palaearctic genera of Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) (Eng.) // Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae: Journal. - Prague : Prague National Museum, 2010. - Vol. 50 (supplementum) . - P. 1—254 . - ISSN 0374-1036 . .
↑ Kryzhanovsky O.L. 1987: New and Little-Known Palaearctic Taxa of the Subfamily Saprininae (Coleoptera Histeridae). [New and poorly known Palaearctic taxa of the subfamily Saprininae (Coleoptera Histeridae)]. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 164: 24–38.

[Lackner2010-1] ¹ ² Tomáš Lackner. Review of the Palaearctic genera of Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) (Eng.) // Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae: Journal. - Prague : Prague National Museum, 2010. - Vol. 50 (supplementum) . - P. 1—254 . - ISSN 0374-1036 . .

[2] Kryzhanovsky O.L. 1987: New and Little-Known Palaearctic Taxa of the Subfamily Saprininae (Coleoptera Histeridae). [New and poorly known Palaearctic taxa of the subfamily Saprininae (Coleoptera Histeridae)]. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 164: 24–38.