Nitidula

Nitidula
Nitidula bipunctata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Nitidulinae
Tribe:	Nitidulini
Genus:	Nitidula Fabricius, 1775

Nitidula is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are more than 20 described species in Nitidula.[1][2][3] Some species breed in carrion while others are associated with later stages of decay in mammalian corpses[4] and can be used in forensic investigations (e.g., Nitidula carnaria, N. flavomaculata).[5]

Nitidula rufipes

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Nitidula:

• Nitidula aemula Heer, 1862
• Nitidula ancora Heer, 1862
• Nitidula antarctica White, 1846
• Nitidula bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) (two-spotted sap beetle)
• Nitidula buprestoides Weber, 1801
• Nitidula carnaria (Schaller, 1783)
• Nitidula convexiuscula Mannerheim, 1843
• Nitidula dubia Gyllenhal, 1808
• Nitidula eremita Audisio, 1990
• Nitidula flavomaculata Rossi, 1790
• Nitidula lateralis White, 1846
• Nitidula maculigera Heer, 1862
• Nitidula melanaria Heer, 1847
• Nitidula nigra Schaeffer, 1911
• Nitidula orbiculata Gyllenhal, 1808
• Nitidula pallida Heer, 1862
• Nitidula prior Scudder, 1900
• Nitidula quadriguttata
• Nitidula radobojana Heer, 1847
• Nitidula robusta Meunier, 1922
• Nitidula rufipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Nitidula sulcata Herbst, 1793
• Nitidula ziczac Say, 1825

References

1. "Nitidula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Nitidula". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Nitidula genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Sims, George G. & Fothergill, Kent (2014). "Recent occurrences of Nitidula flavomaculata Rossi (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in the interior of the United States". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 68 (3): 624–627. doi:10.1649/072.068.0329. S2CID 84950060.
5. Díaz-Aranda, Luisa M.; Martín-Vega, Daniel; Baz, Arturo & Cifrián, Blanca (2018). "Larval identification key to necrophagous Coleoptera of medico-legal importance in the western Palaearctic". International Journal of Legal Medicine. 132 (6): 1795–1804. doi:10.1007/s00414-018-1909-2. PMID 30076465.

Further reading

• Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.

External links

• Media related to Nitidula at Wikimedia Commons