Quedius

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Quedius
Quedius capucinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Tribe: Staphylinini
Subtribe: Quediina
Genus: Quedius
(Distichalius) virginicus Casey, 1915

Quedius is a genus of large rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about 800 described species in Quedius.[1][2][3]

Quedius cinctus

Species[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Quedius Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Quedius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  3. ^ Brunke A, Smetana A, Carruthers-Lay D, Buffam J (2017). "Revision of Hemiquedius Casey (Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) and a review of beetles dependent on beavers and muskrats in North America". ZooKeys 702: 27-43.

Other sources[edit]

  • Brunke A, Marshall S (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys 75: 29–68.
  • Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Chandler D, Savard K, Li A (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys 22: 19–33.
  • Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Li A, Savard K (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys 22: 5–17.
  • Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K (2009). "Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information". ZooKeys 22: 81–170.

Further reading[edit]

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.