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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Minute Beetles (Clambidae) » Clambus

Genus Clambus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Clambus armadillo? - Clambus armadillo extreme small.. - Clambus gibbulus Very small round beetle.. - Clambus gibbulus Very small round beetle.. - Clambus gibbulus Clambus howdeni - Clambus simsoni unknown beetle - Clambus submillimeter legless ball - Clambus Submillimeter - Clambus gibbulus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Scirtoidea
Family Clambidae (Minute Beetles)
Genus Clambus
Explanation of Names
Clambus Fischer von Waldheim 1822
Numbers
11 spp. (of which 2 adventive) in our area(1), >30 total
Identification
Antenna 10-segmented; scutellum well developed - elongate-triangular; eyes divided by lateral margin of head; antennal insertions close to eyes(2)
Key to spp. in (1), to northeastern spp. in(3)
Works Cited
1.New country record for Clambus formosanus japonicus Endrödy-Younga (Coleoptera: Clambidae) from the USA, with an updated key...
Hinson K.R., Chandler D.S., Keller O. 2020. Col. Bull. 74: 181-187.
2.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.
3.Clambidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada
Majka, C.G. and D.W. Langor. 2009. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society 5: 32-40.
Contributed by tom murray on 18 April, 2007 - 11:05pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Tim Moyer, v belov
Last updated 12 December, 2021 - 5:20pm

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