Atheta (Microdota) amicula (Stephens)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Webster, Reginald P., Sikes, Derek, Bourdon, Caroline & Labrecque, Myriam, 2015, A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genera Clusiota Casey and AthetaThomson, subgenusMicrodota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 524, pp. 103-136 : 112-113

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.524.6105

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Atheta (Microdota) amicula (Stephens)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Atheta (Microdota) amicula (Stephens) View in CoL Figs 49-55

Atheta (Microdota) amicula (For diagnosis, see Klimaszewski et al. 2011, Lee and Ahn 2015)

Aleochara amicula Stephens, 1832: 132. As Atheta (Microdota) : Brundin 1948, Palm 1970, Benick and Lohse 1974, Smetana 2004, Lee and Ahn 2015.

Distribution.

Atheta (Microdota) amicula is a Palaearctic species adventive in North America. It was reported in Canada based only on female specimens from NF and NS ( Majka and Klimaszewski 2008, Klimaszewski et al. 2011). In USA, it was recorded from WA ( Moore and Legner 1975). For Palaearctic distribution and synonymy of this species, see Lee and Ahn (2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Aleocharinae

Genus

Atheta

SubGenus

Microdota