Nitidula
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| Nitidula | |
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| 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.[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]
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
