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Sternocoelis incisus
| Sternocoelis incisus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Beetle |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Histeridae |
| Genus: | Sternocoelis |
| Species: | S. incisus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sternocoelis incisus (Schmidt, 1885) | |
Diagnosis
Colour dark brown, shiny; body weakly convex, broadly oval; covered with short setae, longer on margins. Frons coarsely and densely punctate; frontal stria cariniform, irregular, crossing epistoma; labrum truncate, with shallow medial depression; mandibles large, convex, rugose; antennal scape strongly enlarged, rugose, with short setae.
Description
Distribution
Biology
Ant host: Aphaenogaster
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.
- 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.
- Schmidt, J. (1885) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Histeriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 29 (2).