Quedius boops

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: Staphylininae
Tribus: Staphylinini
Subtribus: Quediina
Genus: Quedius
Subgenus: Raphirus
Species: Quedius boops

Name

Quedius (Raphirus) boops (Gravenhorst, 1802: 21)

• Type locality: Not cited, but presumably Brunsvigae.

Synonymy

• Staphylinus boops Gravenhorst, 1802: 21 [original combination]
• Quedius fuscipennis Stephens, 1832: 222 [preoccupied]
• Philonthus tauricus Nordmann, 1837: 78
• Quedius coloratus W. Kolbe, 1912: 12 [Nomen nudum (Articles 1.3.4, 45.5); preoccupied by Quedius coloratus Fauvel, 1875: XXXIII]
• Quedius (Arphirus) arestor Tottenham, 1948: 255
• Philonthus boops tauricus Nordmann, 1837: 78 [synonym by Assing, 2017: 1036]
• Quedius crius Tottenham, 1948: 258 [synonym by Assing, 2017: 1036]
• Quedius boops islandicus Fagel, 1960: 113 [synonym by Assing, 2017: 1036]
• Quedius haafi Scheerpeltz, 1956: 1107 [new synonym in Assing, 2018: 166]

Native distribution areas

• Europe (AU BE BH BU CR CZ DE EN FA FI FR GB GE GR HU IR IT LA LT NL NR PL PT RO SK SL SP SV SZ UK YU), Russia (European, East & West Siberia, Far East), Armenia, Turkey, Cyprus, Tunisia, Algeria, Iceland, Greenland, Kazakhstan
• Doubtful: Iran, Japan (Honshu).

References

Primary references

• Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1802. Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. lxvi + 206 pp. Brunsuigae: Carolus Reichard. BHL [original description: p. 21]
• Assing, V. 2017. On the micropterous Quedius (Raphirus) species with a punctate scutellum of Turkey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 49(2): 1029–1039. PDF Reference page.  [syn. nov., material, comment: p. 1036]
• Assing, V. 2018. On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some West Palaearctic Quedius species, with a focus on the East Mediterranean and the species allied to Quedius umbrinus and Q. nivicola (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 50(1): 149–182. PDF Reference page.  [syn. nov., material, comment: p. 166]

Additional references

• Salnitska, M. & Solodovnikov, A. 2019. Rove beetles of the genus Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Russia: a key to species and annotated catalogue. Zookeys, 847: 1–100. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.847.34049 Reference page.  [notes, Russia: p. 63, figs. 15S–U]