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Genus Amblonoxia - Dusty June Beetles

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)

Tribe Melolonthini

Genus Amblonoxia (Dusty June Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Parathyce Hardy 1974

Explanation of Names

Amblonoxia Reitter 1902

Numbers

6 spp. in our area(1)

Range

CA to Baja(1)

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.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 16 June, 2008 - 6:49am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 4 July, 2023 - 11:23am

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