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Species Pytho seidlitzi

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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 Pythidae (Dead Log Beetles)
Genus Pytho
Species seidlitzi (Pytho seidlitzi)
Explanation of Names
Pytho seidlitzi Blair 1925
Size
9.3−14.8 mm(1)
Range
boreal transcontinental (AK−NT−NS south to OR−MN−n.NY)(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.Natural history, classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographic history of Pytho Latreille (Col.: Heteromera: Pythidae)
Pollock D.A. 1991. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 154: 1-104.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.Additional distribution records for the genus Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Pythidae)
Powell G.S., Brattain R.M., Holland J.D. 2015. Col. Bull. 69: 761-765.