Aclypea altaica

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Silphidae
Subfamilia: Silphinae
Genus: Aclypea
Species: A. Aclypea altaica
Name

Aclypea altaica (Gebler, 1830)
Original combination: Silpha altaica
Synonymised with Aclypea opaca by Schawaller (1996: 8, 'n. syn.'), but considered to be a valid species by Nikolaev & Kozminykh (2002: 81)

Synonyms

Silpha capitata Jakowlew, 1891
Blitophaga jacutica Rjabukhin, 1990
Synonymised with Aclypea opaca by: Schawaller, 1996: 8 ('n. syn.')

References
cited sources

Nikolaev, G.V.; Kozminykh, V.O. 2002: The carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae, Silphidae) of Kazakhstan, Russia and adjacent countries. Almaty: Kazak universiteti. ISBN 9965-12-134-6 [in Russian, with English summary] PDF
Rjabukhin, A.S. 1990: A new species of carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae) from the north-east of the USSR. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 69(4): 140–142.
Schawaller, W. 1996: Revision der Gattung Aclypea Reitter (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A), (541) [in German, with English abstract] PDF