Atheta scurratheca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Athetini
Subtribus: Athetina
Genus: Atheta
Subgenus: Pseudobessobia
Species: Atheta scurratheca

Name

Atheta (Pseudobessobia) scurratheca Pace, 2011: 57

• Type locality: VENEZUELA: Rancho Grande Estacion, 1200 m, Edo. Aragua.
• Holotype: Temporarily in my collection, Monteforte d’Alpone, Verona, Italy, ♀, 24.IV.1999, sobre flor de Asplundia caputmedusae, leg. H. Escalona.
• Etymology: The name of the species means “Spermatheca of a buffoon or clown”, from the Latin scurra = buffoon and spermatheca, alluding to the similarity of the distal bulb of the spermatheca with the head of a circus clown with a ping-pong ball nose.

References

Primary references

• Pace, R. 2011. New and additional records, new genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona botanica zoologia 35: 43–70. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [original description: p. 57, figs. 44-45]