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Lobiopa
Genus
Lobiopa
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
No Taxon
(Soronia complex)
Genus
Lobiopa
Explanation of Names
Lobiopa
Erichson
1843
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, ~30 total
(
1
)
(
2
)
Range
New World, incl. much of NA
(
2
)
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.
A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
Contributed by
Jim McClarin
on 17 November, 2005 - 8:48pm
Additional contributions by
cotinis
,
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 13 February, 2015 - 4:10pm