''Aloconota'' 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
Lund University () is a public research university in Sweden and one of North ...
.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species:
* ''
Aloconota currax''
* ''
Aloconota debilicornis''
* ''
Aloconota gregaria''
* ''
Aloconota insecta''
* ''
Aloconota planifrons''
* ''
Aloconota sulcifrons''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q14880775
Aleocharinae genera
Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Thomson