Actinus imperialis

Actinus imperialis is a beetle of the Staphylinidae family, Staphylinidae subfamily.

Actinus imperialis
Actinus imperialis from New Guinea. Male and female.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Subfamily:
Genus:
Species:
A. imperialis
Binomial name
Actinus imperialis
Fauvel, 1878

Description

Actinus imperialis can reach a length of about 19–22 millimetres (0.75–0.87 in). This colorful staphylinid has a very large jaws, head and pronotum are metallic green, pronotum is strongly convex and punctured, elytra are purplish, rugose-punctate, abdomen is narrowed behind and legs are reddish testaceous. This beetle has been reported on Cardamom and usually preys flies attracted to carrion and dung.

Distribution

This species occurs in Papua New Guinea and in Australia's (Cape York Peninsula).

gollark: That... sounds possible though I don't know exactly what you mean.
gollark: Actually, you could probably just use a static file server and a program to swap out the file every now and then, that would work too.
gollark: Even C, if you're insane.
gollark: Otherwise you will have to program a backend server of some sort, which you can just do in python or JS or a ton of other things.
gollark: If it only needs to be a static image, you don't need to.

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.