Rove beetle

Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe est un entomologiste (coléoptériste et myrmécologue) britannique, né le 17 mars 1870 à Leicester et mort le 22 avril 1951 à Londres. Myrmécologue excentrique, il est connu pour son acharnement à faire renommer le genre Lasius en Donisthorpea, ainsi que pour ses nombreuses revendications de découvertes de nouvelles espèces de coléoptères et des fourmis.

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 over 68,000 species in approximately 4,100 genera, the group is one of the largest families in the beetle order and one of the largest families of organisms. They form an ancient group that first appeared during the Middle Jurassic based on definitive records of fossilized rove beetles, with the Late Triassic taxon Leehermania more likely belonging to the Myxophaga.

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