Ablattaria

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Ablattaria

Species: A. arenaria – A. cribrata – A. laevigata – A. subtriangula
Name

Ablattaria Reitter, 1885: 75

Type species: Silpha laevigata Fabricius, 1775 (designated by Hatch 1928: 120).
References
Primary references

Reitter, E. 1885. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. XII. Necrophaga. (Platypsyllidae, Leptinidae, Silphidae, Anisotomidae und Clambidae.) Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn 23. 1 (1884) 1885: 3–122. BHL Reference page.
Qubaiová, J., Růžička, J. & Šípková, H. 2015. Taxonomic revision of genus Ablattaria Reitter (Coleoptera, Silphidae) using geometric morphometrics. ZooKeys 477: 79-142. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.477.8446 Reference page.

Links

Ablattaria – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Ablattaria – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Ablattaria is a genus of burying beetles or carrion beetles belonging to the family Silphidae. The beetles are predators of gastropods. All species in the genus exhibit sexual dimorphism.[1]
Species

Ablattaria arenaria (Kraatz, 1876)
Ablattaria cribrata (Ménétries, 1832)
Ablattaria laevigata (Fabricius, 1775)
Ablattaria subtriangula Reitter, 1905

[2]
References

Qubaiová, Jarin; Růžička, Jan; Šípková, Hana (26 January 2015). "Taxonomic revision of genus Ablattaria Reitter (Coleoptera, Silphidae) using geometric morphometrics". ZooKeys (477): 79–142. doi:10.3897/zookeys.477.8446. PMC 4319058. PMID 25685005.
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