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Meligethes (Clypeogethes) ater (Nitidulidae: Meligethini) - atlas of sap beetles of Russia

A.G. Kirejtshuk


          Family Nitidulidae (atlas of sap beetles of Russia)
       Tribe Meligethini C.G. Thomson, 1859
    Genus Meligethes Stephens, 1829
Subgenus Clypeogethes Scholtz, 1932


Meligethes (Clypeogethes) ater C. Brisout de Barneville, 1863


Distribution.

Biology.

Body length: 2.0-3.2 mm.

 

 



Meligethes (Clypeogethes) ater
(photo by A. Herrmann)

References:

Якобсон Г.Г. 1915. Жуки России и Западной Европы. 11 часть. - Санкт-Петербург: Издание А.Ф.Девриена - 1915 - С. 865-1024.

Audisio P., Jelinek J., Mariotti A., De Biase A. 2000. The Coleoptera Nitidulidae and Kateretidae from Anatolian, Caucasian, and Middle East regions. Biogeographia. 21 (Biogeographia dell'Anatolia): 241-354.

Kirejtshuk A.G. 1997. New Palaearctic nitidulid beetles, notes on synonymy and systematic position of some species (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, Vol. 6 (1/2): 255-268.

Reitter E. 1919. Nitidulidae und Byturidae. Bestimmungs-Tabelle der europaeischen Coleopteren, 86 (Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Bruenn, 56): 1-104.

Spornraft K. 1967. 50. Familie: Nitidulidae. In: H. Freude, K.W. Harde & G.A. Lohse (eds.). Die Kafer Mitteleuropas,7: 20 - 77. Krefeld: Goecke & Evers Verlag.

Other sources - vgl. "Sap beetles (Nitidulidae)" in part "Scientific essayes on beetles families".