Genus Ahasverus

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

Ahasverus rectus (LeConte) - 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

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 28 March, 2007 - 5:35pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 January, 2015 - 12:52am

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