Oligota pusillima

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: Hypocyphtini
Genus: Oligota
Species: Oligota pusillima

Name

Oligota pusillima (Gravenhorst, 1806: 175)

Synonymy

• Aleochara pusillima Gravenhorst, 1806: 175 [original combination]
  • Oligota pusillima: Thomson, 1860: 262
• Oligota apiciventris Fairmaire & Germain, 1862: 423

Native distribution areas

Europe (28 countries), Russia (European, Siberia), Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Syria, Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Morocco-Egypt, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Gabon, South Africa, China, India, Vietnam, Australia, Chile, ?Argentina; intro? Canada (AB, NB), USA (MA, NY)

References

Primary references

• Gravenhorst, J.L.C., 1806: Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. 248 pp. Gottingae: Henricus Dieterich. [original description: p. 175]
• Assing, V. 2003. A new species of Oligota from Morocco, with redescription of O. tugurtana Fauvel and O. pilicornis Fauvel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 35(1): 533–537. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

Additional references

• Brunke, A.J., Pentinsaari, M. & Klimaszewski, J. 2021. Integrative taxonomy of Nearctic and Palaearctic Aleocharinae: new species, synonymies, and records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 1041: 27–99. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1041.64460 Reference page.  [material, comments: p. 57, figs. 16A–G]
• Pace, R. 2007. New genera and new species of the subfamily Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 13–21. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.  [material, distribution: p. 13]

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