Nitidula

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

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

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. 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.
  4. 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.

Further reading
  • Media related to Nitidula at Wikimedia Commons


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