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Species Collops nigriceps

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Malachiinae
Tribe Malachiini
Subtribe Apalochrina
Genus Collops
Species nigriceps (Collops nigriceps)
Explanation of Names
Collops nigriceps (Say)
Range
e US (NH-FL-AL)(1)(2)
Internet References
Texas Entomology (Quinn 2007)
Works Cited
1.University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.