Microlia machadoi is a species of rove beetles first found in Brazil. It is a pollen-feeder. The species differs from M. pentamera and M. tetramera by possessing a curved spine-like process in the posterior margin of its third tergum.[1]
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| Species: | M. machadoi
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| Microlia machadoi Bortoluzzi, Caron & Silveira
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References edit
- ^ Bortoluzzi, Sidnei, Edilson Caron, and Denise Silveira. "Two new species of Microlia Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with comments on obligatory pollen-feeders and the first record from South America." Zootaxa 4078.1 (2016): 197-208. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.18
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