''Pycnota'' is a genus of
beetles
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 ...
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 species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
* ''
Pycnota aleocharaesimilis''
(Scheerpeltz, 1972)
* ''
Pycnota fuegina''
Pace, 1999
References
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Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae genera