Quedius viator
Species of beetle
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Quedius viator is a species of beetle of the family Staphylinidae. It is found in Kyrgyzstan, where it is only known from the Kyrgyz-Alatoo Mountains, where it was collected at an elevation of 3000 meters.
| Quedius viator | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
| Family: | Staphylinidae |
| Genus: | Quedius |
| Species: | Q. viator |
| Binomial name | |
| Quedius viator Salnitska & Solodovnikov, 2022[1] | |
Description
Etymology
The species name is derived from the Latin noun viator (meaning traveller) and refers to the fact that the species, presumably closely related to a group of Mediterranean species, appears far away, in Middle Asia.[2]
