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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Byrrhoidea » Minute Marsh-loving Beetles (Limnichidae) » Throscinus

Genus Throscinus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Throscinus schwarzii Schaeffer - Throscinus schwarzii Throscinus schwarzii Schaeffer - Throscinus schwarzii Throscinus politus Casey - Throscinus politus Throscinus schwarzii Schaeffer - Throscinus schwarzii Throscinus politus Casey - Throscinus politus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Byrrhoidea
Family Limnichidae (Minute Marsh-loving Beetles)
Genus Throscinus
Explanation of Names
Throscinus LeConte 1874
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 7 total(1)
Identification
see(2)
Range
neotropical group ranging into sw US; in our area, 2 spp. in TX, one in CA(1)
Habitat
Intertidal on mud flats(3)
Remarks
the only NA representative of the subfam. Cephalobyrrinae(3)
Works Cited
1.A checklist of the Limnichidae and the Lutrochidae (Coleoptera) of the world
Spangler P.J., Staines C.L., Spangler P.M., Staines S.L. 2001. Insecta Mundi 15: 151-165.
2.Three new species of Throcinus LeConte, with notes on other species (Coleoptera: Limnichidae: Cephalobyrrhinae)
Wooldridge D.P. 1981. Col. Bull. 35: 217-221.
3.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 Mike Quinn on 8 April, 2009 - 11:46am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 October, 2018 - 6:32pm

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