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Genus Notoxus

Subfamily Notoxinae - ? - Notoxus haustrus Ant-like beetle - Notoxus desertus Small red-brown and black beetle - Notoxus murinipennis Notoxus calcaratus? - Notoxus calcaratus Anthicidae, lateral - Notoxus bifasciatus notoxus - Notoxus desertus Notoxus bifasciatus Beetle - Notoxus desertus
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Notoxinae (Monoceros Beetles)
Genus Notoxus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised by Chandler (1982)(1)
Explanation of Names
Notoxus Geoffroy 1762
Numbers
47 spp. in our area(2), >300 worldwide (Kejval 2011)
Range
nearly cosmopolitan, poorly represented in S. America (only in the north) and absent in the Australian Region (Kejval 2011); most diverse in Africa & w. NA(2)
Remarks
Many spp are attracted to cantharidin and dying meloid beetles(2)
Works Cited
1.A revision of North American Notoxus with a cladistic analysis of the New World species (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Chandler D.S. 1982. Entomography 1: 333-438.
2.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.