Meotica exilis

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: Oxypodini
Subtribus: Meoticina
Genus: Meotica
Species: Meotica exilis

Name

Meotica exilis (Knoch, 1806: 153)

Synonymy

• Aleochara exilis Knoch, 1806: 153 [original combination]
• Homalota pusilla Mulsant & Rey, 1851: 176
• Meotica misera Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 176 [synonymy by Muona (1979)]
• Meotica parilis Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 175 [synonymy by Muona (1979)]
• Meotica immixta Mulsant & Rey, 1875: 103 [synonymy by Muona (1991)]
• Meotica interposita Mulsant & Rey, 1875: 103 [synonymy by Muona (1991)]
• Meotica exiliformis Joy, 1915: 277 [synonymy by Benick (1968)]
• Meotica lubecensis Benick, G., 1953: 63 [synonymy with M. exilis by Vobel (1991)]
• Meotica simillima Benick, G., 1953: 73 [synonym in Assing, 2019: 740]

Native distribution areas

Europe (AU BE BH CR CZ DE EN FI FR GB GE GR HU IR IT LA LT NL NR PL PT RO SK SP SV SZ UK), Russia (S. European, e+w Siberia), Azores, Turkey, Armenia+, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Algeria, Tunisia, Kazakhstan.

References

Primary references

• Knoch, A.W. 1806. In: Gravenhorst, J. L. C. Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. H. Dieterich, Gottingae [Göttingen]. xvi + 248 pp., 1 pl. [original description: p. 153]
• Assing, V. 2019. The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini). Linzer biologische Beiträge 51(2): 731–772. PDF Reference page.  [syn. nov., material, comment, diagnosis: p. 740, figs. 6-17]