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Palmetto Beetles (Smicripidae)
Family Smicripidae - Palmetto Beetles
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Cucujoidea
No Taxon
(Nitidulid series)
Family
Smicripidae (Palmetto Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Only recently recognized as separate family
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1
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Explanation of Names
Smicripidae Horn 1879
Numbers
a single genus with 2 spp. in our area, 6 total
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2
)
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1
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Range
CA, TX, FL-GA
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1
)
Habitat
Often found on decaying vegetation
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1
)
Remarks
uncommon
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1
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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.
Contributed by
Will Chatfield-Taylor
on 18 January, 2008 - 5:06pm
Additional contributions by
Phillip Harpootlian
,
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 18 January, 2015 - 6:18pm