# Acrotona

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***Acrotona*** is a genus of [rove beetles](/source/Rove_beetle) in the family [Staphylinidae](/source/Staphylinidae). There are at least 30 described species in *Acrotona*.[1][2][3]

## Species

- *[Acrotona absona](/source/Acrotona_absona)* Casey, 1910
- *[Acrotona acutella](/source/Acrotona_acutella)* Casey, 1910
- *[Acrotona assecla](/source/Acrotona_assecla)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona austiniana](/source/Acrotona_austiniana)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona cupiens](/source/Acrotona_cupiens)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona curata](/source/Acrotona_curata)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona dilutipennis](/source/Acrotona_dilutipennis)* (Motschulsky, 1858)
- *[Acrotona discreta](/source/Acrotona_discreta)* (Casey, 1893)
- *[Acrotona egens](/source/Acrotona_egens)* Casey, 1910
- *[Acrotona egregiella](/source/Acrotona_egregiella)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona fatigans](/source/Acrotona_fatigans)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona fontinalis](/source/Acrotona_fontinalis)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona hebeticornis](/source/Acrotona_hebeticornis)* Notman, 1920
- *[Acrotona luteola](/source/Acrotona_luteola)* (Erichson, 1839)
- *[Acrotona obliquata](/source/Acrotona_obliquata)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona onthophila](/source/Acrotona_onthophila)* Lohse in Lohse, Klimaszewski and Smetana, 1990
- *[Acrotona opica](/source/Acrotona_opica)* (Casey, 1911)
- *[Acrotona pasadenae](/source/Acrotona_pasadenae)* (Bernhauer, 1906)
- *[Acrotona petulans](/source/Acrotona_petulans)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona picescens](/source/Acrotona_picescens)* Notman, 1920
- *[Acrotona reclusa](/source/Acrotona_reclusa)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona recondita](/source/Acrotona_recondita)* (Erichson, 1839)
- *[Acrotona scopula](/source/Acrotona_scopula)* (Casey, 1893)
- *[Acrotona smithi](/source/Acrotona_smithi)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona sonomana](/source/Acrotona_sonomana)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona subpygmaea](/source/Acrotona_subpygmaea)* (Bernhauer, 1909)
- *[Acrotona trossula](/source/Acrotona_trossula)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona turbans](/source/Acrotona_turbans)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona vafra](/source/Acrotona_vafra)* (Casey, 1910)
- *[Acrotona zephyrina](/source/Acrotona_zephyrina)* (Casey, 1910)

## References

1. ["*Acrotona* Genus Information"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/235654). *BugGuide.net*. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

1. ["*Acrotona* Report"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=724483). *Integrated Taxonomic Information System*. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

1. ["*Acrotona* Overview"](http://eol.org/pages/103809/overview). *Encyclopedia of Life*. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

## Further reading

- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H. (eds.) (2002). *American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea*. CRC Press.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). *American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico*. CRC Press.
- Brunke, A. & Marshall, S. (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". *ZooKeys*. '***(75): 29–68. [Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...29B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ZooK...75...29B). [doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.75.767). [PMC 3088045](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088045). [PMID 21594139](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21594139)***
- Majka, C. & Klimaszewski, J. (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". *ZooKeys*. '***(46): 15–39. [Bibcode:2010ZooK...46...15M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ZooK...46...15M). [doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.46.413)***
- Klimaszewski, J.; Webster, R.; Savard, K. (2009). "First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". *ZooKeys*. '***(22): 45–79. [Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...45K](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ZooK...22...45K). [doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.153](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.22.153)***
- White, Richard E. (1983). *Peterson Field Guides: Beetles*. Houghton Mifflin.
- Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Li, A.; Savard, K. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". *ZooKeys*. '***(22): 5–17. [Bibcode:2009ZooK...22....5M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ZooK...22....5M). [doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.22.86)***
- Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Chandler, D.; Savard, K.; Li, A. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". *ZooKeys*. '***(22): 19–33. [Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...19M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ZooK...22...19M). [doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.22.177)***

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