Megarthrus nitidulus

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: Proteininae
Tribus: Proteinini
Genus: Megarthrus
Species: Megarthrus nitidulus

Name

Megarthrus nitidulus Kraatz, 1857: 1028

• Type locality: Mollenfalde.
• Lectotype: DEI, ♀. [designated by Cuccodoro & Löbl, 1997: 1384]

References

Primary references

• Kraatz, G. 1857. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abtheilung Coleoptera. Zweiter Band. Lieferung 3–6. Berlin: Nicolai, pp. 377–1080. Reference page.  [original description: p. 1028]

Additional references

• Cuccodoro, G. & Löbl, I. 1997. Revision of the Palaearctic rove beetles of the genus Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Journal of Natural History 31(9): 1347–1415. DOI: 10.1080/00222939700770761 PDF Reference page.  [lectotype, material, description, distribution: p. 1384, figs. 1h, 22a-i, 23a-i]
• Zhang, S., Cuccodoro, G., Chen, L. & Liu, Z-P. 2021. Megarthrus of China. Part 3. Comments on the occurrence of Megarthrus nitidulus Kraatz, 1857 in China, and description of a new species, with notes on teratology and phoretic acari in the genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Proteininae). Zootaxa 4920(4): 554–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.4.6 Reference page.