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

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F07CD1B4-D0B0-4048-837E-1B731168C5EC

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

Genus

Atheta