Nitidula

Nitidula
Nitidula bipunctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Nitidulidae
Subfamily: Nitidulinae
Tribe: Nitidulini
Genus: Nitidula
Fabricius, 1775

Nitidula is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are more than 20 described species in Nitidula.[1][2][3] Some species breed in carrion while others are associated with later stages of decay in mammalian corpses[4] and can be used in forensic investigations (e.g., Nitidula carnaria, N. flavomaculata).[5]

Nitidula rufipes

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Nitidula:

References

  1. ^ "Nitidula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Nitidula". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Sims, George G. & Fothergill, Kent (2014). "Recent occurrences of Nitidula flavomaculata Rossi (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in the interior of the United States". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 68 (3): 624–627. doi:10.1649/072.068.0329. S2CID 84950060.
  4. ^ Díaz-Aranda, Luisa M.; Martín-Vega, Daniel; Baz, Arturo & Cifrián, Blanca (2018). "Larval identification key to necrophagous Coleoptera of medico-legal importance in the western Palaearctic". International Journal of Legal Medicine. 132 (6): 1795–1804. doi:10.1007/s00414-018-1909-2. PMID 30076465.

Further reading

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