Eumicrota veninfida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Homalotini
Subtribus: Gyrophaenina
Genus: Eumicrota
Species: Eumicrota veninfida

Name

Eumicrota veninfida (Pace, 2011: 46)

• Type locality: VENEZUELA: Bolivar, Canaima.
• Holotype: Collection Guillaume de Rougemont, London, ♀, 11-12. II.2006, leg. G. de Rougemont.
• Etymology: The name of the species, meaning “harmfully divided”, from the Latin venenum = poison and findere = to divide, refers the exceptionally long thorns of the female sixth free tergite.

Synonymy

• Gyrophaena veninfida Pace, 2011 [basionym]

References

Primary references

• Pace, R. 2011. New and additional records, new genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona botanica zoologia 35: 43–70. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [original description: p. 46, figs. 7-9]