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Tribe Elmini

elmid species 1 - Dubiraphia vittata Ampumixis dispar Moapa Warm Springs Riffle Beetle - Stenelmis moapa Very Tiny Beetle - Stenelmis Optioservus fastiditus Stenelmis - Stenelmis crenata Pennsylvania Beetle - Stenelmis crenata Macrelmis shepardi - male
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 Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)
Subfamily Elminae
Tribe Elmini
Numbers
the largest tribe in NA, with >90 spp. in 22 genera in our area(1)
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.
Contributed by v belov on 7 October, 2010 - 9:52pm
Last updated 12 March, 2011 - 8:24am

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