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Genus Anaspis

Brown mordellid on mountain maple - Anaspis flavipennis

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 Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetles)

Subfamily Anaspidinae

Tribe Anaspidini

Genus Anaspis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Larisia Emery 1876, Nassipa Emery 1876, Silaria Mulsant 1856 (all now as valid subgenera)

Explanation of Names

Anaspis Geoffroy 1762

'shieldless'

Numbers

13 spp. in our area(1), >80 in 6 subgenera in Europe(2)

Range

throughout NA(1)

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.	de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 3 April, 2007 - 6:09am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 March, 2015 - 3:14pm

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