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For the United States & Canada

Genus Aderus

Aderus tantillus (Champion) - Aderus tantillus Aderid - Aderus brunnipennis Aderid - Aderus Aderid - Aderus saginatus Tiny brown beetle - Aderus brunnipennis Aderidae sp. - Aderus brunnipennis Aderus - Aderus populneus Aderus saginatus? - Aderus saginatus
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 Aderidae (Ant-like Leaf Beetles)
Tribe Aderini
Genus Aderus
Explanation of Names
Aderus Westwood 1830
Numbers
4 spp. (incl. one adventive) in our area(1)
Identification
key to eastern spp. in Werner (1990)(2)
Range
Worldwide(1)
Remarks
our only representative of the subtribe Aderina
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.Revision of the Aderidae of eastern North America.
Werner, F.G. 1990. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 98: 187-232.