Quedius scitus

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: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Staphylininae
Tribus: Staphylinini
Subtribus: Quediina
Genus: Quedius
Subgenus: Microsaurus
Species: Quedius scitus
Name

Quedius (Microsaurus) scitus (Gravenhorst, 1806: 50)
Synonymy

Staphylinus scitus Gravenhorst, 1806: 50 [original combination]
Staphylinus analis Fabricius, 1787: 221 [ICZN 2004: 198, no precedence over scitus Gravenhorst, 1806]
Staphylinus atricillus Gravenhorst, 1806: 55
Staphylinus pygmaeus Gravenhorst, 1806: 57 [preoccupied, not Staphylinus pygmaeus Villers, 1789: 420, not Staphylinus pygmaeus Paykull, 1800: 410]
Quedius atriceps Stephens, 1832: 218
Bolitobius (Megacronus) punctulatus Heer, 1839: 298
Quedius meledanus va scitus Reitter, 1900: 288

Native distribution areas

Europe (AU BE BH CR CZ DE EN FI FR GB GE HU IT LA LT LU NL NR PL RO SK SL SV SZ UK), Russia (European, East Siberia), Kazakhstan.
References
Primary references

Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1806. Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. H. Dieterich, Gottingae [Göttingen]. xvi + 248 pp., 1 pl. [original description: p. 50]

Additional references

Salnitska, M. & Solodovnikov, A. 2019. Rove beetles of the genus Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Russia: a key to species and annotated catalogue. Zookeys, 847: 1–100. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.847.34049 Reference page. [notes, Russia: p. 60, figs. 13D–F]