Tetradonia

Tetradonia
Tetradonia beetle attacking an adult Eciton burchellii worker ant during a colony emigration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Tribe:	Athetini
Genus:	Tetradonia Wasmann, 1894

Tetradonia is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least three described species in Tetradonia. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These three species belong to the genus Tetradonia:

• Tetradonia anteopaca Pace, 2015
• Tetradonia guyanensis Pace, 2015
• Tetradonia megalops (Casey, 1906)

References

1. "Tetradonia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
2. "Tetradonia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
3. "Tetradonia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-22.

Further reading

• Jacobson, Herbert R.; Kistner, David H. (1998). "A Redescription of the Myrmecophilous Genus Tetradonia and a Description of a New, Closely Related, Free living Genus Tetradonella (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Sociobiology. 31 (2): 151–279. ISSN   0361-6525.
• Elven, Hallvard; Bachmann, Lutz; Gusarov, Vladimir I. (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini–Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta)". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (6): 617–636. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00553.x. PMC   3532658 . PMID   23316099.
• Seevers, Charles H. (1978). "A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Fieldiana, Zoology. 71. ISSN   0015-0754.
• Frank, J. H.; Ahn, K. J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. Bibcode:2011ZooK..107....1A. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.107.1651 . PMC   3392188 . PMID   22792029.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-29685-5.