An illustrated key to and diagnoses of the species of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina
Author
Aballay, Fernando H.
Author
Chani-Posse, Mariana R.
Author
Ayón, María Rosana
Author
Maldonado, María Belén
Author
Centeno, Néstor D.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3860
2
101
124
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.1
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Oligotergus ogloblini
Bernhauer
(
Fig. 24
)
Diagnosis
.
Oligotergus ogloblini
can be distinguished by the following characters: head and pronotum dull black, coarsely and moderately punctuated, both with medial area impunctate; elytra black, finely and densely punctuated, with golden-orange pubescence; visible abdominal segments 2–7 black with apical margins increasingly goldenorange, segment golden orange; antennal segments 4–10 elongate. Length 8.5–10.0 mm.
Distribution.
Argentina
(
Herman 2001; Newton, unpublished database
).
Bionomics.
Species belonging to
Oligotergus
have been mainly found in fungi, carrion, dung and decaying fruits in tropical pine forests and mountain forests (
Navarrete-Heredia
et al.
2002
;
Morales & Aguilar-Astudillo 2012
).