Aleochara fugax (lat.) Is a species of short-winged beetles from the Aleocharinae subfamily [1] .
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Content
Spread
Caucasus [1] .
Description
Small short-winged beetles , body length about 3.5 mm. From similar species ( A. spadicea , A. arachnipes , A. irmgardis , A. orientalis, and A. schmausi ) it is distinguished by a black-brown general body color, orange elytra, yellow bases of the antennae, mouth parts and legs. Pronotum transverse, head large (almost equal to pronotum width). Antennae 11-segmented. The front, middle and hind tarsi are 5-segmented (formula 5-5-5). The mandibular palpi consist of 4 segments (with the 5th pseudo-segment), and the labial palp consists of 3 segments (with the 4th pseudo-segment). The body is subparallel from the sides. Larvae are parasites of puparia flies (pass hypermetamorphosis ) [2] . The species was first described in 1962 by the Soviet and Armenian coleopterologist Stepan Mironovich Yablkov-Khnzoryan (1904-1996), and its valid status was confirmed during an audit conducted in 2000 by Kazakh entomologists Professor V. A. Kashcheev (1953-2012) [3 ] and M.K. Childebaev (Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Akademgorodok, Almaty , Kazakhstan ). It is included in the subgenus Rheochara (on the basis of a large head and long legs) together with the species A. spadicea, A. arachnipes, A. irmgardis, A. orientalis, and A. schmausi [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kashcheev V.A. , Childebaev M.K. To the study of Aleochara Grav. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) fauna of Russia, Kazakhstan and neighboring countries (Russian) // TETHYS Entomologocal Research: Journal. - Alma-Ata, 2000 .-- T. 2 . - S. 113-132 . - ISSN 1680-1024 .
- ↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. II. Coleoptera and fan-winged. / under total. ed. Corr. G. Ya. Bey-Bienko . - M. - L .: “Science”, 1965. - 668 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 89.). - 5700 copies.
- ↑ Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Kashcheev (December 20, 1953 - July 14, 2012). Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor . www.zin.ru
Literature
- Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. II. Coleoptera and fan-winged. / under total. ed. Corr. G. Ya. Bey-Bienko . - M. - L .: “Science”, 1965. - 668 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 89.). - 5700 copies.
- Klimaszewski, J. A revision of the genus Aleochara Gravenhorst in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) (Eng.) // Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada: Journal. - Ottawa : The Entomological Society Of Canada, 1984. - Vol. 129 . - P. 1–211 . - ISSN 0071-075X . - DOI : 10.4039 / entm116129fv .
Links
- Aleochara Gravenhorst, 1802 (English) . biolib.cz. - Taxonomy. Circulation date May 31, 2019.
- Staphylinidae (English) . eol.org. - Taxonomy. Circulation date May 31, 2019.