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Apoderiger grandis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ134354118 ↗
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Apoderiger grandis is a species of beetle of the Staphylinidae family. This species is found in Madagascar (Manongarivo Special Reserve).

Adults reach a length of about 2.20 mm and have a yellowish-brown body.

The host ant of this species is Paratrechina amblyops rubescens.

Etymology

The species is named after the large size of the body.

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This entry incorporates text from “Apoderiger grandis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.