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Genus Acanthogethes

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

No Taxon (Nitidulid series)

Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)

Subfamily Meligethinae (Pollen Beetles)

Genus Acanthogethes

Explanation of Names

Acanthogethes Reitter 1871

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1), 6 spp. total(2)

Size

1.2–4.3 mm(2)

Range

w. Palaearctic, mostly Mediterranean(2); in our area, NF(1)

Food

larval hosts: flowers of Cistaceae, esp. small bushes of Cistus, Helianthemum, Halimium(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Audisio P., Cline A.R., De Biase A., et al. 2009. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341–504.

Contributed by v belov on 3 March, 2014 - 11:08pm
Last updated 4 March, 2014 - 6:15pm

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