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Genus Ischalia

Black and orange beetle - Ischalia costata strange anthicid - Ischalia costata Ischalia costata Potential Tenebrionidae? - Ischalia vancouverensis Potential Tenebrionidae? - Ischalia vancouverensis Potential Tenebrionidae? - Ischalia vancouverensis Fungus Beetle? - Ischalia vancouverensis Ischalia costata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Ischaliidae (Broad-hipped Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Ischaliinae (Broad-hipped Flower Beetles)
Genus Ischalia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Both D.K. Young(1) and D. Chandler (pers. comm.) agree with Nikitsky & Egorov (1992) that the genus is better placed in a separate family (rather than Anthicidae or Pyrochroidae)
Explanation of Names
Ischalia Pascoe 1860
Numbers
36 spp. worldwide, of which 3 in our area; all our spp. + 2 spp. from China belong to the subgenus Eupleurida LeConte 1862; the remaining 30 spp. (all Asian), to the subgenus Ischalia(1)(2)
Identification
all our spp. have distinctive patterns, and are illustrated in(2) (Figs 15-17)
Range
33 spp. in East & South Asia, 3 spp. in NA (one eastern, two western)(1)