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Genus Pinodytes

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Catopocerinae
Tribe Catopocerini (Eyeless Soil Fungivore Beetles)
Genus Pinodytes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
western ex-Catopocerus have all been transferred here(1)
Explanation of Names
Pinodytes Horn 1880
Numbers
42 spp., all in our area(1)
Identification
Males can be separated from females by the presence of phanerae (apically widened setae) ventrally on at least the protarsomeres(1)
Range
NA west of the Mississippi River (from the Ozarks and e. TX to so. CA and through CO-ID to c. AK; absent in most of glaciated w. NA); one sp. in MO-AR-e.TX, 22 spp. in CA (two of which also in OR), one in CO, 4 spp. in ID(1)
Works Cited
1.Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America...
Peck S.B., Cook J. 2011. Zootaxa 3077: 1–118.
Contributed by v belov on 6 April, 2012 - 4:00pm
Last updated 8 December, 2023 - 9:58pm

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