Genus Copidita

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Unidentified cantharid - Copidita quadrimaculata

Copidita quadrimaculata? - Copidita quadrimaculata

Beetle on the Beach - Copidita quadrimaculata

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 Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Oedemerinae

Tribe Asclerini

Genus Copidita

Explanation of Names

Copidita LeConte 1866

Numbers

monotypic genus(1)

Range

w. NA (BC-CA-TX)(2)(3)

Remarks

adults come to lights(3)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera) Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257-391.

2.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

3.	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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 14 July, 2006 - 6:16pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 1:14pm

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