Myrmoecia

Myrmoecia is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about nine described species in Myrmoecia.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Myrmoecia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Staphylinidae
Tribe:	Lomechusini
Genus:	Myrmoecia Mulsant & Rey, 1874

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Myrmoecia:

• Myrmoecia canadensis Maruyama & Klimaszewski, 2006 ^g
• Myrmoecia confragosa (Hochhuth, 1849) ^g
• Myrmoecia lauta (Casey, 1893) ^{i c g b}
• Myrmoecia lugubris (Casey, 1893) ^{i c g}
• Myrmoecia physogaster (Fairmaire, 1860) ^g
• Myrmoecia plicata (Erichson, 1837) ^g
• Myrmoecia rigida (Erichson, 1839) ^g
• Myrmoecia triangulum (Pérez-Arcas, 1874) ^g
• Myrmoecia tuberiventris (Fairmaire, 1855) ^g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

1. "Myrmoecia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
2. "Browse Myrmoecia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
3. "Myrmoecia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
4. "Myrmoecia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
5. Pace, Roberto (2015). "Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae nella Guyana Francese: Part V.(Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)". Contributions to Entomology. 65 (1): 131–156.
6. Hlaváč, Peter; Newton, Alfred F.; Maruyama, Munetoshi (2011). "World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)". Zootaxa. 3075.

Further reading

• Elven, Hallvard; Bachmann, Lutz; Gusarov, Vladimir I. (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini–Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta)". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (6): 617–636. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00553.x. PMC 3532658. PMID 23316099.
• Seevers, Charles H. (1978). "A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Fieldiana, Zoology. 71. ISSN 0015-0754.
• Frank, J. H.; Ahn, K. J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.