Genus Mycetina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Red-and-black leaf beetle - Mycetina idahoensis

Handsome Fungus Beetle? - Mycetina hornii

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Coccinellid group)

Family Endomychidae (Handsome Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Lycoperdininae

Genus Mycetina

Explanation of Names

Mycetina Mulsant 1846

Numbers

3 spp. in our area (one eastern, two western)(1), ~70 worldwide(2)

Range

holarctic, Oriental (most spp.), Afrotropical(2); in NA, much of the US and adjacent Canada(1)(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.	An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae) Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.

3.	Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska

Contributed by tom murray on 7 May, 2005 - 2:50pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 5 February, 2021 - 2:59pm

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