''Stenus alpicola'' is a species of
rove beetle
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 ...
in the genus ''
Stenus
''Stenus'' is a genus of semiaquatic rove beetles in the subfamily Steninae, and one of the largest genus in the kingdom Animalia, with some 2700 known species worldwide (only the beetle genus ''Agrilus'' is comparable in size). They are predato ...
''.
It was described in 1872.
References
Steninae
Beetles described in 1872
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