Kenocoelus dimorphus

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Kenocoelus dimorphus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Beetle
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Staphylinidae
Genus: Kenocoelus
Species: K. dimorphus
Binomial name
Kenocoelus dimorphus
Broun, 1911

Diagnosis

Body larger (more than 1.7 mm in male); male abdominal sternite IV with a pair of large, indistinctly shaped concavities sternite V with a pair of large, deep concavities just behind concavities on sternite IV, each concavity without median apodeme.

Description

Distribution

New Zealand

Biology

Ant host: Pheidole xanthogaster

REFERENCES

  • Broun, T. (1911) Notes on the coleopterous family Pselaphidae of the group Euplectini of New Zealand, with descriptions of two new genera and twelve species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 8.