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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. Some species breed in carrion while others are associated with later stages of decay in mammalian corpses and can be used in forensic investigations (e.g., Nitidula carnaria, N. flavomaculata).

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

• [REDACTED] Media related to Nitidula at Wikimedia Commons

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