Sternocoelis pluristriatus

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

Diagnosis

Colour light brown, shiny; body weakly convex; covered with yellow medium- length setae.

Description

Distribution

Algeria

Biology

Host ant: 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.