Acrotona

Acrotona is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 30 described species in Acrotona.[1][2][3]

Acrotona
Acrotona nigerrima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Staphylinidae
Tribe:	Athetini
Genus:	Acrotona Thomson, 1859

Species

• Acrotona absona Casey, 1910
• Acrotona acutella Casey, 1910
• Acrotona assecla (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona austiniana (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona cupiens (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona curata (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona dilutipennis (Motschulsky, 1858)
• Acrotona discreta (Casey, 1893)
• Acrotona egens Casey, 1910
• Acrotona egregiella (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona fatigans (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona fontinalis (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona hebeticornis Notman, 1920
• Acrotona luteola (Erichson, 1839)
• Acrotona obliquata (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona onthophila Lohse in Lohse, Klimaszewski and Smetana, 1990
• Acrotona opica (Casey, 1911)
• Acrotona pasadenae (Bernhauer, 1906)
• Acrotona petulans (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona picescens Notman, 1920
• Acrotona reclusa (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona recondita (Erichson, 1839)
• Acrotona scopula (Casey, 1893)
• Acrotona smithi (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona sonomana (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona subpygmaea (Bernhauer, 1909)
• Acrotona trossula (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona turbans (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona vafra (Casey, 1910)
• Acrotona zephyrina (Casey, 1910)

References

1. "Acrotona Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
2. "Acrotona Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
3. "Acrotona Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Brunke, A.; Marshall, S. (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys (75): 29–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMC 3088045. PMID 21594139.
• Majka, C.; Klimaszewski, J. (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". ZooKeys (46): 15–39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413.
• Klimaszewski, J.; Webster, R.; Savard, K. (2009). "First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". ZooKeys (22): 45–79. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.153.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.
• Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Li, A.; Savard, K. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys (22): 5–17. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.
• Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Chandler, D.; Savard, K.; Li, A. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys (22): 19–33. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.