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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Brachypsectridae » Brachypsectra

Genus Brachypsectra

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Brachypsectridae
Genus Brachypsectra
Explanation of Names
Brachypsectra LeConte 1874
Greek brachy 'short' + psektra 'scraper' (refers to the "chin piece")
Numbers
A single species in our area(1), 7 extant spp. total(2)(Lawrence, Monteith, & Reid, 2020)
Size
4-8 mm(3)
Range
sw. NA, W. Indies; in the Old World, S. Asia to nw. Australia(3)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
3.Review of the family Brachypsectridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)
Costa C., Vanin S.A., Lawrence J.F., Ide S., Branham M.A. 2006. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 99: 409-432.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 2 June, 2007 - 7:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 23 January, 2023 - 6:25pm

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