Acrotona Thomson 1859
Creators
- 1. Division of Forest Biodiversity, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon 11186, South Korea. jspdi @ naver. com
- 2. Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, South Korea. kjahn @ cnu. ac. kr
Description
Genus Acrotona Thomson, 1859
Acrotona Thomson, 1859: 38 (Type species: Aleochara aterrima Gravenhorst, 1802).
Colpodota Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 153 (Type species: Homalota Mulsant & Rey, 1852).
Solenia Mulsant & Rey, 1873: 158 (Type species: Colpodota simulans Mulsant & Rey, 1873 = Aleochara fungi Gravenhorst, 1806).
Arcromota Casey, 1893: 300 (Type species: Arcromota fusiformis Casey, 1893).
Eustrigota Casey, 1911: 165 (Type species: Strigota seclusa Casey, 1911).
Diagnosis. Members of the genus Acrotona can be distinguished from other athetine genera by combination of the following characters: body fusiform, more or less convex dorso-ventrally; infraorbital carina complete; pronotum transverse, widest behind middle, pubescence directed posteriorly in midline in most; hypomera invisible in lateral aspect; mesoventral process beyond middle of mesocoxal cavities; metatarsomere 1–4 subequal in length; abdomen narrow apically, with conspicuous macrosetae; segmental margins of abdomen minutely crenulate; abdominal tergites III–V impressed in basal region, VII longer than VI; bursa of spermatheca more or less spherical and extended to elongate neck, duct regularly coiled posteriorly and often with swelled apex (Fenyes, 1920; Yosii & Sawada, 1976; Seevers, 1978; Lohse et al., 1990; Klimaszewski1 et al., 2015).
Distribution. Worldwide.
Remarks. Acrotona is very similar to Mocyta Mulsant & Rey and Strigota Casey, but can be distinguished by the diagnosis above and a key distinguishing the genera presented by Klimaszewski et al. (2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Acrotona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomson
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acrotona Thomson, 1859 sec. Lee & Ahn, 2018
References
- Thomson, C. G. (1859) Skandinaviens Coleoptera, synoptiskt bearbetade. Tome I. Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, 290 pp.
- Gravenhorst, J. L. (1802) Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstans in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. Carolus Reichard, Brunsuigae, 206 pp.
- Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. (1873) Description de divers coleopteres brevipennes nouveaux ou peu connus. Opuscules Entomologiques 15, 147 - 189.
- Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. (1852) Description de quelques coleopteres nouveux ou peu connus de la tribu des Brachelytres. Opuscules Entomologiques, 1, 15 - 46, 1 pl.
- Gravenhorst, J. L. (1806) Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. Henricus Dieterich, Gottingae, [12] + 236 pp.
- Casey, T. L. (1893) Coleopterological notices. V. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 7, 281 - 606.
- Casey, T. L. (1911) New American species of Aleocharinae and Myllaeninae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera. II. The New Era Printng Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pp. 1 - 245.
- Fenyes, A. (1920) Coleoptera Fam. Staphylinidae subfam. Aleocharinae. In: Wytsman, P. (Eds.), Genera Insectorum. Fascicle 173 b. Louis Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles, pp. 114 - 414.
- Yosii, R. & Sawada, K. (1976) Studies on the genus Atheta Thomson and its allies (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). II: Diagnostic characters of genera and subgenera with description of representative species. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University, 25 (1), 11 - 140.
- Seevers, C. H. (1978) A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Fieldiana: Zoology, 71, 1 - 289.
- Lohse, G. A., Klimaszewski, J. & Smetana, A. (1990) Revision of arctic Aleocharinae of North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 44, 121 - 202.
- Klimaszewski, J., Webster, R. P., Bourdon, C., Pelletier, G., Godin, B. & Langor, D. W. (2015) Review of Canadian species of the genus Mocyta Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), with the description of a new species and a new synonymy. ZooKeys, 487, 111 - 139.