• Source: Anotylus latiusculus
  • Anotylus latiusculus is a species of rove beetle widely spread in Asia.


    Description


    It is a tiny, spiny-legged rove beetle with a length of 1.5 mm. The body is black and shiny with a small head. Dorsal surfaces of head, thorax and elytra are sparsely pitted. Antenna clubbed. Elytra short. There is a row of spines in front tibia.
    It is a parasitoid of Musca domestica that attack the puparium.
    Two subspecies were identified.

    Anotylus latiusculus latiusculus - nominate
    Anotylus latiusculus niticeps (Bernhauer, 1935)


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