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Subfamily Ptilodactylinae

Toe-winged Beetle - Ptilodactyla carinata - male

Female, Lachnodactyla arizonica? - Lachnodactyla arizonica - female

Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Ptilodactyla

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Byrrhoidea

Family Ptilodactylidae (Toe-winged Beetles)

Subfamily Ptilodactylinae

Numbers

12 spp. in 2 genera in our area; this subfamily includes ~80% of world ptilodactylid spp.(1)

Internet References

Subfamily overview(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.	Lawrence J.F., et al. (2000-2005) Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification...

Contributed by v belov on 12 January, 2015 - 10:20pm

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