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Genus Pocadius

puffball nitidulid - Pocadius fulvipennis puffball nitidulid - Pocadius fulvipennis puffball nitidulid - Pocadius fulvipennis puffball nitidulid - Pocadius fulvipennis Pocadius helvolus Erichson - Pocadius helvolus Neat little Nitidulid? - Pocadius fulvipennis Fungus Beetle - Pocadius basalis Pocadius
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 Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Nitidulinae
Tribe Nitidulini
Genus Pocadius
Pronunciation
not closely related to either Thalycra & allies or the Aethina complex of genera(1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Global revision in(2)
Explanation of Names
Pocadius Erichson 1843
Numbers
4 spp. in our area; 46 spp. total (26 Neotropical, 9 Oriental, 3 Palearctic, 3 Afrotropical, 1 Australian)(2)
Range
worldwide (almost 60% of known spp. are Neotropical); in our area(2):
1 eastern sp. (e. NA to central Mexico): P. helvolus
1 w. NA: P. fulvipennis
2 sw. US: P. basalis, P. niger
Remarks
the 'Pocadius genus complex' as defined in(3) is found to be polyphyletic(1)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification...
Cline A.R., Smith T.R., Miller K., Moulton M., Whiting M., Audisio P. 2014. Systematic Entomology 39: 758–772.
2.Revision of Pocadius Erichson (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Cline A.R. 2005. Louisiana State University.
3.A current generic classification of sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)
Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. Zoosystematica Rossica 17: 107-122.