Sternocoelis acutangulus

Sternocoelis acutangulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Beetle
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Histeridae
Genus:	Sternocoelis
Species:	S. acutangulus
Binomial name
Sternocoelis acutangulus (Lewis, 1887)

Description

Colour reddish brown, shiny; body weakly convex and stout; covered with short yellow setae. Frons with coarse and dense punctures; frontal stria cariniform, irregular, eva- nescent on epistoma; labrum with a shallow impression; mandibles large, convex, densely punctate; antennal scape greatly enlarged and rugose.

Distribution

Morocco, Spain

Biology

Ant host: Aphaenogaster sardoa

REFERENCES

• Dégallier N. 1998a. Notes taxonomiques et faunistiques sur les Histeridae néotropicaux avec la description de Brasilister flechtmanni nov. gen, nov. sp. et Terapus flechtamnni nov. sp. (Coleoptera, Histeridae). Nouvelle Revue d’Entomologie (N.S.) 15: 45-62.

• Hinton, H.E. (1945) A key to the North American species of Terapus, with description of a new species (Col., Histeridae). Proceeding of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 14 (B), 38–45.

• Lewis, G. (1887) On a new species of Hetaerius from Tangier. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 24.

• Reichensperger A. 1958. Zwei neue Gattungen myrmekophiler Hetaeriomorphini (Col. Hist.) nebst Bemerkungen über Terapus gracilipes Bruch (Aneuterapus nov. gen.). Studia Entomologica (N.S.) 1: 279-286.