''Acrolocha'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
belonging to the family
Staphylinidae
The rove beetles are a family (biology), family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With over 66,000 species in thousand ...
.
The genus was described in 1858 by
Carl Gustaf Thomson
Carl Gustaf Thomson (13 October 1824, in Malmöhus – 20 September 1899, in Lund) was a Swedish entomologist.
Thomson became a student at the University of Lund
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.
he species of this genus are found in
Eurasia
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and
North America
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.
Species:
* ''
Acrolocha amabilis''
(Heer, 1841)
* ''
Acrolocha caucasica''
Tóth, 1976
* ''
Acrolocha daccordii''
Zanetti, 1979
* ''
Acrolocha diffusa''
(Fauvel, 1878)
* ''
Acrolocha helferi''
Steel, 1957
* ''
Acrolocha horiguchii''
Y.Watanabe, 2007
* ''
Acrolocha iranica''
Assing, 2022
* ''
Acrolocha kanagawana''
Y.Watanabe, 2007
* ''
Acrolocha leechi''
Hatch, 1957
* ''
Acrolocha minuta''
(Olivier & A.G., 1795)
* ''
Acrolocha miyamorii''
Y.Watanabe, 1990
* ''
Acrolocha newtoni''
Thayer, 2003
* ''
Acrolocha pliginskii''
Bernhauer, 1912
* ''
Acrolocha rogeri''
Shavrin, 2017
* ''
Acrolocha sulcula''
(Stephens, 1834)
* ''
Acrolocha wahuiensis''
Zhong, Miao, Mei-Jun Zhao & Li-Zhen Li, 2009
* ''
Acrolocha zhongdianensis''
Shavrin & Smetana, 2016
References
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Staphylinidae genera
Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Thomson