Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): a review of the evidence [PDF]
Large carrion beetles (Silphidae) are the focus of ongoing behavioral ecology, forensic, ecological, conservation, evolutionary, systematic, and other research, and were recently reclassified as a subfamily of Staphylinidae.
Derek S. Sikes +2 more
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Carabidae and Staphylinidae are the two beetle families frequently found to be most abundant and diverse in forest ecosystem. Their roles especially as generalist predators are important in forest ecosystem.
Agmal Qodri +2 more
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Oxytelus (Tanycraerus) altaicus Kastcheev, 1999 – a little known rove beetle species from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) [PDF]
Diagnostic characters for the little known species Oxytelus (Tanycraerus) altaicus Kastcheev, 1999 are presented and illustrated. Oxytelus (T.) altaicus difers from the closely related O.
M.Yu. Gildenkov, O.I. Semionenkov
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Rove beetles of the open plains of the South European Russia: a review with the key to genera and annotated species checklist (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) [PDF]
Based on the exhaustive literature survey we provide the annotated catalogue with 874 species of Staphylinidae beetles relevant for the fauna of the open plains of the South European Russia (PSER). PSER is a convenience study region with some ecological
M.A. Salnitska +4 more
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Gyrophaena anastasiarum Glotov, sp. n. is described from Primorskiy Kray (Russian Far East). New synonymy is proposed: Gyrophaena triquetra Weise, 1877 = Gyrophaena fl ammula Pace, 2007 syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for Gyrophaena hanseni A.
S. V. Glotov
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New records and updated checklist of the genus Philonthus (Col: Staphylinidae) for Iran [PDF]
Six species of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), belonging to the genus Philonthus Stephens 1829, are reported for the first time from Iran.
Seyed Mohammad Tabadkani +2 more
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Invertebrates in the gradient of different age soils under a birdcliff at the Grønfjord Area (Svalbard, Arctic) [PDF]
The aim of this study was a preliminary analysis of the distribution of microarthropods (Oribatida, Collembola) and herpetobiontic invertebrates (Aranei, Coleoptera) in soils of different ages under a seabird colony in the vicinity of the Barentsburg ...
N.V. Lebedeva +3 more
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A new species of the genus Leptacinus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xantholininae) from Rostov Region of Russia [PDF]
A new rove beetle Leptacinus stradomskyi sp. n. (Xantholininae) is described from Rostov Region of Russia (Ust-Donetsk District, Krymskiy village, in the burrows of marmots).
E.A. Khachikov
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To the knowledge of the complex of species close to Ocypus nitens (Schrank, 1781) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) [PDF]
A detailed study of a group of species closely related to Ocypus nitens (Schrank, 1781) is presented. The questions of morphological evolution, phylogeny and distribution of the species of this complex are considered.
E.A. Khachikov
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The complete mitogenome of rove beetle Megalinus hunanensis Bordoni, 2013 was determined in this study. It was 17,314 bp in length, and comprised of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and a 2511 bp A + T-rich control region.
Yanpeng Cai
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