Pictured rove beetle

Thinopinus pictus
Specimen from a shore on Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Staphylinidae
Subfamily:
Staphylininae
Genus:
Thinopinus
Species:
T. pictus
Binomial name
Thinopinus pictus
LeConte, 1852

The pictured rove beetle (Thinopinus pictus) is a wingless rove beetle which lives on the sandy beaches of the West Coast of the United States from southern Alaska to Baja California.[1] It is nocturnal, emerging at night from temporary sand burrows to feed on beach hoppers (Orchestoidea).[2]

  1. ^ I. Moore (1977). "The color phases of Thinopinus pictus Leconte (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 31 (4): 377–378.
  2. ^ P. C. Craig (1970). "The behavior and distribution of the intertidal sand beetle, Thinopinus pictus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Ecology. 51 (6): 1012–1017. Bibcode:1970Ecol...51.1012C. doi:10.2307/1933627. JSTOR 1933627.