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Genus Simplocaria

Pill beetle from Jasper 10.07.11 - Simplocaria metallica beetle - Simplocaria semistriata Simplocaria metallica	 - Simplocaria metallica Beetle - Simplocaria semistriata Small Beetle - Simplocaria semistriata Simplocaria - Simplocaria metallica Simplocaria - Simplocaria metallica beetle - Simplocaria semistriata
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 Byrrhinae
Tribe Simplocariini
Genus Simplocaria
Explanation of Names
Simplocaria Stephens 1830
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (of which one adventive)(1)
Range
Holarctic; in our area, mostly boreal transcontinental (2 spp. Holarctic + 1 adventive from Europe)(1), a dozen more in n. Eurasia(2)
Works Cited
1.Johnson P.J. (-2013) Project Byrrhus
2.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I
Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.