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Species Plateros lictor

Plateros lictor (Newman) - Plateros lictor - male Plateros lictor (Newman) - Plateros lictor - male Lycid - Plateros lictor Plateros lictor - male Plateros lictor
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)
Genus Plateros
Species lictor (Plateros lictor)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Plateros lictor (Newman)
Orig. Comb: Eros lictor Newman 1838
Numbers
>30 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
3.5-8.25 mm (Green 1953)
Range
AZ-FL-NH-BC (2)
Remarks
This is our commonest and most widely distributed species. (Green 1953)
Print References
Green, J.W. 1953. The Lycidae of the United States and Canada. V. Plateros (Coleoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 78(3-4): 149-181. JSTOR
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. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.