Species Curimopsis strigosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Curimopsis strigosa (Melsheimer) - Curimopsis strigosa

Curimopsis strigose - Curimopsis strigosa

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 Byrrhidae (Pill Beetles)

Subfamily Syncalyptinae

Genus Curimopsis

Species strigosa (Curimopsis strigosa)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Curimopsis strigosa (Melsheimer)

Orig. Comb: Simplocaria strigosa Melsheimer, 1844

Numbers

5 Nearctic spp. (1)

Range

se US (TX-GA-DC-OK) (2)(3)(4)

Life Cycle

Most N. Amer. Byrrhidae are obligate moss feeders as both larvae and adults (Johnson, 1987), (1)

Print References

Johnson, P.J. 1986. A new species and a key to the Nearctic species of Curimopsis Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 40(1): 37-43.

Johnson, P.J. 1987. Larval taxonomy, biology, and biogeography of the genera of North American Byrrhidae. Unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Idaho, Moscow, 268 pp.

Melsheimer, F.E. 1846. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2: 98-118.

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.	An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

3.	Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue") Charles W. Leng. 1920. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY. x + 470 pp.

4.	List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 14 July, 2011 - 11:46am
Last updated 3 June, 2016 - 12:45pm

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