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Family Endecatomidae

Unknown Beetle - Endecatomus rugosus Endecatomus dorsalis Mellié - Endecatomus dorsalis Endecatomidae, lateral - Endecatomus rugosus Endecatomidae, head, ventral - Endecatomus rugosus Endecatomus from Nebraska - Endecatomus rugosus Unknown Beetle - Endecatomus rugosus Endecatomus rugosus Endecatomus rugosus  - Endecatomus rugosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Endecatomidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated in the Ciidae or Bostrichidae(1)
Explanation of Names
Endecatomidae LeConte 1861
Numbers
a single genus, with 2 spp. in our area and 4 spp. total(1)(2)(3)
Range
holarctic; in our area, e. 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.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
3.World catalogue of the family Endecatomidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea)
Zahradník P. 2006. Studies and reports of District Museum Prague-East, Taxonomical Series 2: 142-144.