Aleochara lanuginosa

Gravenhorst, 1802

Woolly Minute Rove Beetle

Aleochara lanuginosa is a in the , characterized by its minute size and distinctive woolly . The is to the Palearctic region but has been to North America, where it is now established in Canada and the northern United States. It belongs to the subgenus Xenochara, a group of Aleochara species with specialized ecological associations.

The Coleoptera of the British islands (Plate 37) (9141669579) by Donisthorpe, Horace St. John Kelly; Fowler, W. W.. Used under a Public domain license.Aleochara lanuginosa by Reginald Webster, Jan Klimaszewski, Georges Pelletier, Karine Savard. Used under a CC BY 3.0 license.Aleochara lanuginosa Gravenhorst, 1802 by URSchmidt. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Pronunciation

How to pronounce Aleochara lanuginosa: /ˌæl.iː.oʊˈkær.ə ləˌnjuː.dʒɪˈnoʊ.sə/

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Distribution

to Europe, Russia (European and Siberian regions), Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Canary Islands), and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan). to North America: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan) and USA (California, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin).

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