Sternocoelis laevidorsis

Sternocoelis laevidorsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Beetle
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Histeridae
Genus:	Sternocoelis
Species:	S. laevidorsis
Binomial name
Sternocoelis laevidorsis (Fairmaire, 1876)

Description

Colour reddish brown; body weakly convex, oval; dorsal surface with sparse and short setae laterally. Frons wide, finely and sparsely punctate; frontal stria cariniform, evanescent on epistoma; labrum slightly depressed; mandibles large, convex and finely punctulate; antennal scape very enlarged, punctate, with short setae.

Distribution

Algeria, Tunisia

Biology

Ant host: Cataglyphis bicolor and Cataglyphis viatica

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.