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Tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson, 1859

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A Faunal Review of Aleocharine Beetles in the Rapidly Changing Arctic and Subarctic Regions of North America (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

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Keys to genera and Arctic/Subarctic species of the tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson are presented. The following is provided for each species: a morphological diagnosis, distribution, information about habitat and methods of collection, key references, colour images of the habitus, and black and white images of the genitalia (median lobe of the aedeagus, spermatheca) and terminal segments of both sexes.

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  1. Laurentian Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Quebec City, QC, Canada

    Jan Klimaszewski & Caroline Bourdon

  2. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Adam Brunke & Anthony Davies

  3. University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    Derek S. Sikes

  4. Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Mikko Pentinsaari

  5. Whitehorse, YT, Canada

    Benoit Godin

  6. Charters Settlement, NB, Canada

    Reginald P. Webster

  7. Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA

    Alfred F. Newton

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Klimaszewski, J. et al. (2021). Tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson, 1859. In: A Faunal Review of Aleocharine Beetles in the Rapidly Changing Arctic and Subarctic Regions of North America (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68191-3_11

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