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Genus Scirtes

Flea Marsh Beetles - Scirtes sp - Scirtes tibialis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Scirtoidea

Family Scirtidae (Marsh Beetles)

Genus Scirtes

Explanation of Names

Scirtes Illiger 1807

Numbers

6‒7 spp. in our area(1)(2)(3)

Range

e. US to TX‒CA(1)

See Also

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.	The Water Beetles of Florida Epler J.H. 2010. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Tallahassee. 414 pp.

3.	A new species of Scirtes (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) from southern Florida and the Caribbean Epler, JH. 2012. Zootaxa 3530: 77-82.

Contributed by tom murray on 1 November, 2005 - 3:42pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 March, 2024 - 11:01pm

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