Histeroidea
Histeroidea is a superfamily of beetles in the infraorder Staphyliniformia.
Histeroidea | |
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Hister unicolor | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
Superfamily: | Histeroidea Gyllenhaal, 1808 |
Families | |
Characteristics
Characteristic to Histeroidea are an accessory posterior ridge (locking device) behind the hind margin and presence of medial loop and apical hinge of wing. Elytra truncate, 1 or 2 abdominal segments visible, abdominal 8th segment completely invaginated in the 7th segment. Antennae have 8 (seldom 7) segments preceding a club of fused segments. Ventral body surface glabrous.[1]
Systematics
Some authors treat Histeroidea as a single family within the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Hydrophiloidea sensu lato), as they seem to form a clade.[2] Three families are currently recognized:
gollark: Flea eggs are discrete entities.
gollark: Actually, nothing lighter than flea eggs exists whatsoever.
gollark: *But* I also don't want it to unnecessarily add `bee/` to stuff if I just do `cyclogon -cf test.cyc bee` (to recursively add the `bee` folder).
gollark: I basically want to be able to say `cyclogon -cf test.cyc bee/apioform.txt bee/apiary.txt` and have it put in `bee/apioform.txt` at the path `bee/apioform.txt` in the archive.
gollark: <:BEES:825515690613145610> this, *why* am I having significant trouble just implementing a nice frontend for the compressional apiaries?
External links
References
- M.Hansen. Phylogeny and classification of the staphyliniform beetle families (Coleoptera). Biologiske Skrifter, Copenhagen, 1997
- R.G.Beutel, R.A.B.Leschen (2005) Phylogenetic analysis of Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera) based on characters of larvae and adults Systematic Entomology 30 (4) , 510–548
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