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Edaphus alcathous

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Edaphus alcathous is a species in the family Staphylinidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Taiwan.

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Quick facts about Edaphus alcathous

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Edaphus alcathous live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Edaphus alcathous is listed for 1 country.

Taiwan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Taiwan

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Edaphus alcathous endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Edaphus alcathous classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyStaphylinidae
  6. genusEdaphus
  7. SpeciesEdaphus alcathous Puthz, 2010

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Edaphus alcathous

Other species in the same genus Edaphus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Edaphus alcathous live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Edaphus alcathous for 1 country: Taiwan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Edaphus alcathous?

Edaphus alcathous (Edaphus alcathous) belongs to the family Staphylinidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Edaphus alcathous (Edaphus alcathous). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/edaphus-alcathous

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“Edaphus alcathous (Edaphus alcathous).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/edaphus-alcathous.

BibTeX
@misc{edaphus_alcathous_2026,
  title = {Edaphus alcathous (Edaphus alcathous)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/edaphus-alcathous},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}