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Genus Ahasverus

Silvanidae  - Ahasverus advena Ahasverus spp. - Ahasverus Silvanidae - Ahasverus advena florida silvanid - Ahasverus rectus a foreinger? - Ahasverus Ahasverus advena Ahasverus rectus? - Ahasverus rectus Ahasverus rectus? - Ahasverus rectus
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 (Cucujid series)
Family Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Silvaninae
Genus Ahasverus
Explanation of Names
Ahasverus Gozis 1881
Numbers
3 described spp.(1) and one undescribed in our area; ~10 spp. total(2)
Identification
Range
e. US to TX(1); New World genus, most diverse in the Neotropics, with one sp. (A. advena) spread with commerce and now cosmopolitan(2)
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.Thomas M.C. (-2011) A preliminary checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world