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''Rhexius'' is a genus of ant-loving beetles in the family
Staphylinidae The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With roughly 63,000 species in thousands of genera, th ...
. There are about 6 described species in ''Rhexius''.


Species

* '' Rhexius ferrugineus'' Casey, 1908 * '' Rhexius insculptus'' LeConte, 1849 * '' Rhexius ouachita'' Chandler, 1990 * '' Rhexius schmitti'' Brendel, 1893 * '' Rhexius stephani'' Chandler, 1990 * '' Rhexius substriatus'' LeConte, 1878


References

* Chandler, Donald S. (1997). "Family: Pselaphidae". ''A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico'', ix + 118. * Newton, Alfred F. Jr., and Donald S. Chandler (1989). "World Catalog of the Genera of Pselaphidae (Coleoptera)". ''Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, no. 53'', iv + 93.


Further reading

* Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Rhexius''
Pselaphinae genera {{Beetle-stub