Anotylus latiusculus

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Anotylus latiusculus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Genus: Anotylus
Species:
A. latiusculus
Binomial name
Anotylus latiusculus
(Kraatz, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Oxytelus latiusculusKraatz, 1859
  • Oxytelus m-elevatusLea, 1906
  • Oxytelus sulcifronsFauvel, 1875
  • Oxytelus ganglbaueriBernhauer, 1907
  • Oxytelus boehmiBernhauer, 1910
  • Oxytelus pusillusBoheman, 1848

Anotylus latiusculus is a species of rove beetle widely spread in Asia. [1] [2]

Description

It is a tiny, spiny-legged rove beetle with a length of 1.5 mm. [3] The body is black and shiny with a small head. Dorsal surfaces of head, thorax and elytra are sparsely pitted. Antenna clubbed. Elytra short. There is a row of spines in front tibia. [4]

It is a parasitoid of Musca domestica that attack the puparium. [4]

Two subspecies were identified. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Anotylus latiusculus". mindat. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  2. ↑ "Anotylus latiusculus (Kraatz, 1859)". insecta. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  3. ↑ "The egg and mature larva of Anotylus insecatus (Gravenhorst, 1806) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)" (PDF). cassidae. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  4. 1 2 Omar, Baharudin; Sulaiman, Sallehudin; Jeffery, John (1991). "Anotylus latiusculus (Kraatz) (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae) parasitising the puparium of Musca domestica L. in Malaysia". Medical Entomology and Zoology. pp. 147–149. doi:10.7601/mez.42.147 . Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  5. ↑ "Anotylus latiusculus niticeps (Bernhauer, 1935)". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 2021-07-04.


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