Family Prostomidae - Jugular-horned Beetles

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

Prostomidae - Prostomis mandibularis - Prostomis americanus

Small flat beetle - Prostomis americanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Prostomidae (Jugular-horned Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Prostomidae C.G. Thomson 1859

Numbers

a single sp. in our area, 30 spp. in 2 genera total(1)

Range

Prostomis subcosmopolitan, another genus in NZ, Tasmania, Sri Lanka(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	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.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 18 January, 2008 - 1:59pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 February, 2015 - 2:46pm

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