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Vituratella Reitter 1908

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Description

Vituratella Reitter, 1908

Distribution. China: Hong Kong; Nepal; India: Uttar Pradesh (Kumaon); Indonesia: Sumatra, Sulawesi (new island record); Eritrea; Ethiopia; Cameroon; Ivory Coast; Republic of the Congo; Kenya; Rwanda; Burundi; Angola; Tanzania; Madagascar; South Africa: Natal.

Remarks. Only one species of the genus Vituratella, V. kistneri Löbl, 1979, had been known from Indonesia. As the second species of Vituratella from Indonesia, V. termitophila represents a new discovery from Sulawesi.

Notes

Published as part of Ogawa, Ryo & Maeto, Kaoru, 2015, The Termitophilous Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, pp. 301-304 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 69 (2) on pages 301-304, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.2.301, http://zenodo.org/record/5332258

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Reitter
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Vituratella
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Vituratella Reitter, 1908 sec. Ogawa & Maeto, 2015

References

  • Lobl, I. 1979. Two new Sumatran Scaphidiidae associated with termites and one new species of the genus Scaphisoma Leach from Java (Coleoptera). Sociobiology 4 (3): 321 - 328.