Habitus of the species considered for the whole microbiome analysis. Hycleus polymorphus (a), Mylabris variabilis (b), Lydus trimaculatus (c), Meloe proscarabaeus (d) and Zonitis flava (e)
#LiteratureNotice Basile et al. The Putative Involvement of Bacterial Symbionts in Cantharidin Biogenesis: An Explorative Study in #Meloidae Insects doi.org/10.1007/s002... #Beetle #Beetles #blisterbeetles #rovebeetles #symbiotic
Pages 50 and 51 of the catalog of Brünnich (1764) containing the first mention of the Danish common name “rovbille” for Staphylinus (top); page 27 of the catalog of Forster (1771) containing the first mention of the English common name “rove beetle” for Staphylinus.
#LiteratureNotice Hansen. On the Etymological Origin of “Rove Beetles” (Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #Etymological #rovebeetles
Hamotus heidiae gen. et sp. nov. A Dorsal habitus of holotype male. B Lateral habitus of holotype male. C Schematic of meso-metaventrite with foveae indicated. LMSF: lateral mesoventral fovea; MMSF: median mesoventral fovea; LMCF: lateral mesocoxal fovea; MMTF: median metaventral fovea. The circular notch of the metaventral apex between metacoxae is indicated. D Aedeagus, lateral view. E Aedeagus, dorsal view
#LiteratureNotice Parker et al. Evolution of leafcutter ant myrmecophiles: #Hamotus heidiae, a new symbiont of Acromyrmex colonies with undetectable hydrocarbons (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) doi.org/10.1007/s000... #Beetle #Beetles #leafcutterants #rovebeetles #symbiosis
New Issue of Soil Organisms is OUT!
Tobias Mainda introduces us to 6 ✨NEW✨ #Staphylinidae from the Phillipines. Check is out here ⬇️
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#coleoptera #rovebeetles
Prosolierius qizhihaoi sp. nov. from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. A, B. Prosolierius qizhihaoi, sp. nov.
#LiteratureNotice Liu et al. Prosolierius qizhihaoi sp. nov., a new species of solieriine rove beetles from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) doi.org/10.1016/j.as... #Beetle #Beetles #rovebeetles #amber
"FIGURE 1. (a), habitat of Domene boavidae sp. nov. near S. Pedro (Vila Viçosa, Viseu district); (b), D. boavidae sp. nov. male adult; (c), habitus of D. boavidae sp. nov. (dorsal view), holotype male; (d), habitus of Domene pedroi sp. nov. (dorsal view), holotype male. "
#LiteratureNotice Serrano & Aguiar. Two new species of Domene Fauvel, 1873 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Portugal and faunistic notes doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #rovebeetles
Tychobythinus rasiligulus Choi, Carlton & Park, sp. n. (A) Dorsal habitus. (B) Head (latero-ventral view). (C) Head (ventral view). (D) Antenna. (E) Maxilla. (F) Prothorax (ventral view). (G) Meso-, metaventrites. (H) Protibia. (I) Mesotibia. (J) Metatibia. (K–L) Abdominal sternites. (M) Aedeagus. Scale bars: (A) 1 mm, (B–M) 0.1 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Choi et al. Revision of the Tribe Bythinini ( #Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) From Korea With Molecular Phylogeny doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #Taxonomy
FIGURES 1–3. Habitus of Omalium: 1—O. anguliferum (holotype). 2—O. rutilum (paratype), 3—O. sectum (holotype). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Shavrin. Review of the genus Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Omaliinae: Omaliini) of China doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #NewSpecies #RoveBeetles
FIGURE 1. Habitus, Macrotrichurus granzottorum sp. nov., Holotype, Male. A) Lateral; B) Dorsal; C) Dorsal focused on head. Scales: 1.0 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Felipe da Silva et al. Macrotrichurus granzottorum, a #NewSpecies of termitophilous rove beetle from Brazil ( #Staphylinidae: #Aleocharinae: Termitonannini) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
FIGURES 1‒2. Stenomastigus mpumalanganus sp. nov. Dorsal habitus of male (1) and female (2).
#LiteratureNotice Jaloszynski. Two #NewSpecies of the South African genus Stenomastigus Leleup ( #Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae, #Scydmaeninae) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
Oxypoda stanleyi, dorsal habitus.
#LiteratureNotice Griswold & Hinson. Bionomics and First Record of the Rove Beetle Oxypoda stanleyiKlimaszewski and McLean ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) from the USA doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
#LiteratureNotice Sikes.Correction of Synonymy for Nicrophorus oregonensis Swan and Papp, 1972 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Silphinae): Revised Synonym of Nicrophorus defodiens Mannerheim, 1846 doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #Taxonomy
Anaclasiger sinuaticollis. A–I) Male, J) Female. A) Dorsal habitus, B) Head and pronotum, C) Antenna, D) Mesotibia, E) Base of composite tergite, F) Sternite 7 (IX). Aedeagus: G) Dorsal, H) Lateral, I) Ventral. J) Genitalia. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B, C, E = 0.2 mm; D, G–I = 0.1 mm; F, J = 0.05 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Zhang et al. Host Specificity and Range Extension of Anaclasiger sinuaticollis Raffray, 1890 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Pselaphinae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewRecords #TheColeopteristsBulletin
Dorsal view of Belonuchus heads. a) B. gagates, showing the impressed fovea (yellow) and the longitudinal impression (red), b) B. tenebros, new species, showing the impressed fovea (yellow).
#LiteratureNotice Rainey & Ivie. Revision of the West Indian Belonuchus Nordmann, 1837 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Staphylininae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewSpecies
Australosagola male habitus photos, all dorsal view except for B, ventral view. A, B. A. tasmaniae comb. nov.; C. A. rugicornis comb. nov.; D. A. helenae comb. nov.; E. A. minsangi sp. nov.; F. A. minhoi sp. nov.; G. A. jiwooki sp. nov.; H. A. sunheei sp. nov.; I. A. doohyungi sp. nov.; J. A. jungjooni sp. nov.; K. A. yongsooni sp. nov. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Choi et al. Australosagola, a #NewGenus of pselaphine beetles from southern Australia ( #Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae, #Pselaphinae, Faronitae) with descriptions of seven #NewSpecies doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
The habitus and aedeagus of adult Tolmerinus fratrumelliotorum. A: Habitus; B, D: aedeagus in parameral view. C: aedeagus in lateral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Hu et al. The larva of the genus Tolmerinus Bernhauer described: does it help to reveal a sister-group for the rove beetle subtribe Anisolinina ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Staphylininae)? doi.org/10.3897/asp.... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #Taxonomy #Systematics
FIGURES 1–3. Habitus: 1–Anthobium scheerpeltzi (holotype), 2–Mannerheimia feldmanni (holotype), 3–Coryphium loebli (Nepal). Scale bar: 1.0 mm
#LiteratureNotice Shavrin. #NewSpecies and records of Omaliinae MacLeay, 1925 ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) from the eastern Palaearctic region doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewRecords
Habitus of Bibrax species (A, D. Dorsal view; B, E. Lateral view; C, F. Ventral view). A–C. B. chullachaqui sp. nov.; D–F. B. chocoensis sp. nov.
#LiteratureNotice Tapuy-Avilés et al. First record of Bibrax Fletcher, 1927 ( #Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae, #Pselaphinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of twelve #NewSpecies doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
Fig. 1. Schematic drawings of mesoventral plates. A – ventral plate of Lathrobium sp., inner side; B – ventral plate of Ocypus sp., inner side.
#LiteratureNotice Tokareva & Żyła. Insights for the subtribal-level phylogenetic reconstructions in Paederinae ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae): a study on mesoventral plate with elements of #ComparativeMorphology doi.org/10.1016/j.as... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
#LiteratureNotice Löbl. On the Species of Baeocera Erichson ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Scaphidiinae) from Myanmar doi.org/10.3161/0003... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewSpecies
Morphology of Arthromelodes lhunzensis sp. nov., male A dorsal habitus B head and pronotum C antennal club D protibia E mesotibia F sternite 7 (IX) G, H aedeagus, lateral (G), and ventral (H). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A); 0.3 mm (B); 0.2 mm in (C, D, E); 0.1 mm in (F, G); 0.05 mm (A).
#LiteratureNotice Zhang & Yin. Three #NewSpecies of Batrisini ( #Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae, #Pselaphinae) from southeast Xizang, China doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
Diversity of Staphylininae. (a) Platyprosopus elongatus. (b) Diochus schaumi (credit: Thomas Shahan). (c) Homalolinus sp. (credit: Zhenhao Feng). (d) Xantholinus tricolour (credit: Nikolai Vladimirov). (e) Othius chrysurus. (f) Valdiviodes ashworthi (credit: Bernardo Segura Silva). (g) Photinopygus calidus (credit: Laurent Hesemans). (h) Hesperosoma guizhouense. (i) Platydracus sp. (j) Quedionuchus glaber. (k) Bolitogyrus magnimaculosus (credit: Fan Gao). (l) Ctenandropus sp. (credit: Fan Gao). (m) Atanygnathus sp. (credit: Vinícius Rodrigues de Souza). (n) Cheilocolpus viridulus (credit: Nicky Bay). (o) Loncovilius variabilis (credit: Matías Gargiulo).
#LiteratureNotice Reyes-Hernández et al. Evolutionary systematics of the Staphylininae rove beetles ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) resolved by integration of #Phylogenomics, comparative morphology and historical #BioGeography doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
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A big #phylogenomic tree with bigger taxonomic implications for the world's biggest #RoveBeetles (#Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae, Staphylinini, Platydracus-group)
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#Taxonomy #Morphology
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FIGURE 1. Parabolitobius macropterus sp. nov., male. A. Dorsal habitus. B. Right elytron. C. Sternite VII. D. Sternite VIII. E. Aedeagus, ventral. F. Endophallus armature, dorsal. G. Apical portion of paramere. Scale bars: 1.0 mm in A; 0.5 mm in B–F; 0.2 mm in G.
#LiteratureNotice Yin & Du. Description of Parabolitobius macropterus sp. nov. from Jiangxi, China: a major southern range expansion for the genus ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: Mycetoporinae) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles #NewSpecies
Euconnus (s. str.) dulcis (B–E male A, F female) A dorsal habitus B head, in anterior view, showing clypeal angulation C sternites, showing modification on 4 (VI) and 5 (VII) D, E aedeagus, lateral (D) and ventral (E) F spermatheca, lateral. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A); 0.2 mm (B, C); 0.1 mm (D, E); 0.05 mm (F).
#LiteratureNotice Yin et al. First report of subfamily Scydmaeninae ( #Coleoptera, #Staphylinidae) from Shanghai, with description of two #NewSpecies doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #Rovebeetles
Habitus. A) Cafius newtoni, new species, holotype, male, 5.9 mm, B) C. bryanti.
#LiteratureNotice Park & Ahn. Description of a #NewSpecies of Cafius Stephens ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Staphylininae) from Australia doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
Phylogeny of the Ocyolinus group of Xanthopygina, as reconstructed from a maximum likelihood analysis of a hybrid enrichment dataset using IQTREE. Analysis from Brunke and Chatzimanolis (2024).
#LiteratureNotice Chatzimanolis & Brunke. Revisiting Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Xanthopygina), with an Updated Key and a #NewSpecies from Guatemala doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
Scaphidium. (1) S. centronotatum sp. nov., habitus, scale = 3 mm. (2) Ditto, aedeagus. (3) Ditto, extruded part of the internal sac. (4) S. shibatai Kimura, sclerites of internal sac. (5) S. shirakii Miwa & Mitono, sclerites of internal sac.
#LiteratureNotice Löbl & Hu. On Taiwanese Scaphidiinae ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae), with descriptions of five #NewSpecies and #NewRecords doi.org/10.35929/RSZ... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
FIGURE 1. Morphology of Trisinus cavernosus sp. nov. (A–I. Male. J. Female). A. Dorsal habitus. B. Head and pronotum. C. Head. D. Apex of mesotibia. E. Tergite 1 (IV). F. Tergite 7 (IX). G–I. Aedeagus, lateral (G), ventral (H) and dorsal (I). J. Genital complex. Scale bars: 0.5 mm in A; 0.2 mm in B, C, E; 0.05 mm in D, F; 0.1 mm in G–J.
#LiteratureNotice Ding et al. A #NewSpecies group of Trisinus Raffray ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of two new species from the Tianmu Mountains, China doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
