Nitidula is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are more than 20 described species in Nitidula.[1][2][3] Some species breed in carrion while others are associated with later stages of decay in mammalian corpses[4] and can be used in forensic investigations (e.g., Nitidula carnaria, N. flavomaculata).[5]
| Nitidula | |
|---|---|
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| Nitidula bipunctata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Nitidulidae |
| Subfamily: | Nitidulinae |
| Tribe: | Nitidulini |
| Genus: | Nitidula Fabricius, 1775 |
Species
editThese 23 species belong to the genus Nitidula:
- Nitidula aemula Heer, 1862
- Nitidula ancora Heer, 1862
- Nitidula antarctica White, 1846
- Nitidula bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) (two-spotted sap beetle)
- Nitidula buprestoides Weber, 1801
- Nitidula carnaria (Schaller, 1783)
- Nitidula convexiuscula Mannerheim, 1843
- Nitidula dubia Gyllenhal, 1808
- Nitidula eremita Audisio, 1990
- Nitidula flavomaculata Rossi, 1790
- Nitidula lateralis White, 1846
- Nitidula maculigera Heer, 1862
- Nitidula melanaria Heer, 1847
- Nitidula nigra Schaeffer, 1911
- Nitidula orbiculata Gyllenhal, 1808
- Nitidula pallida Heer, 1862
- Nitidula prior Scudder, 1900
- Nitidula quadriguttata
- Nitidula radobojana Heer, 1847
- Nitidula robusta Meunier, 1922
- Nitidula rufipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Nitidula sulcata Herbst, 1793
- Nitidula ziczac Say, 1825
References
edit- ^ "Nitidula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Nitidula". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Nitidula genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Sims, George G. & Fothergill, Kent (2014). "Recent occurrences of Nitidula flavomaculata Rossi (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in the interior of the United States". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 68 (3): 624–627. doi:10.1649/072.068.0329. S2CID 84950060.
- ^ Díaz-Aranda, Luisa M.; Martín-Vega, Daniel; Baz, Arturo & Cifrián, Blanca (2018). "Larval identification key to necrophagous Coleoptera of medico-legal importance in the western Palaearctic". International Journal of Legal Medicine. 132 (6): 1795–1804. doi:10.1007/s00414-018-1909-2. PMID 30076465.
Further reading
edit- Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links
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