Ecclisister costaericae

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Ecclisister costaericae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Beetle
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Histeridae
Genus: Ecclisister
Species: E. costaericae
Binomial name
Ecclisister costaericae
Reichensperger, 1935

Diagnosis

Description

Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, and Brazil


Biology

Ant host: Eciton burchellii

REFERENCES

  • Dégallier N. 1998a. Notes taxonomiques et faunistiques sur les Histeridae néotropicaux avec la description de Brasilister flechtmanni nov. gen, nov. sp. et Terapus flechtamnni nov. sp. (Coleoptera, Histeridae). Nouvelle Revue d’Entomologie (N.S.) 15: 45-62.
  • Hinton, H.E. (1945) A key to the North American species of Terapus, with description of a new species (Col., Histeridae). Proceeding of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 14 (B), 38–45.
  • Reichensperger A. 1958. Zwei neue Gattungen myrmekophiler Hetaeriomorphini (Col. Hist.) nebst Bemerkungen über Terapus gracilipes Bruch (Aneuterapus nov. gen.). Studia Entomologica (N.S.) 1: 279-286.