Margarinotus brunneus

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Margarinotus brunneus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Histeridae
Genus: Margarinotus
Species:
M. brunneus
Binomial name
Margarinotus brunneus
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Margarinotus cadaverinus (Hoffmann, 1803)
  • Ptomister brunneus
  • Margarinotus impressus [1]

Margarinotus brunneus is a species of beetles belonging to the family Histeridae. [2]

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Description

Margarinotus brunneus can reach a length of about 5.5–8.5 millimetres (0.22–0.33 in). Body is shiny black in colour. These beetles are characterized by the presence on the pronotum of complete marginal stria, by two lateral pronotal striae and basal fragments of the 5th dorsal striae. [3]

Distribution

This species is present in most of Europe. [4] It has been introduced into eastern North America. [3]

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References

  1. "Invertebrate Ireland". www.habitas.org.uk.
  2. Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz.
  3. 1 2 "Coleoptera of Great Smoky Mountains National Park". www.lsuinsects.org.
  4. "Fauna Europaea". www.faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014.