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Dircaeini
Tribe Dircaeini
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
Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily
Melandryinae
Tribe
Dircaeini
Explanation of Names
Dircaeini Kirby 1837
Numbers
9-10 spp. in 4 genera in our area
(
1
)
, ~70 spp. in 8 genera worldwide
(
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.
BioLib.cz
Contributed by
v belov
on 5 February, 2015 - 2:05pm