''Bolitochara'' is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s belonging to 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, the ...
.
The genus was first described by Mannerheim in 1830.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
* ''
Bolitochara lucida
''Bolitochara'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
The genus was first described by Mannerheim in 1830.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the ...
''
* ''
Bolitochara mulsanti''
* ''
Bolitochara obliqua''
* ''
Bolitochara pulchra''
References
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Aleocharinae
Staphylinidae genera