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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Melandryinae » Dircaeini » Dircaea » Dircaea liturata

Species Dircaea liturata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Dircaea liturata Dircaea liturata? - Dircaea liturata Melandryid - Dircaea liturata False Darkling Beetle - Dircaea liturata UID Buprestidae - Dircaea liturata ? - Dircaea liturata Black and yellow beetle - Dircaea liturata Dircaea liturata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Melandryinae
Tribe Dircaeini
Genus Dircaea
Species liturata (Dircaea liturata)
Explanation of Names
Dircaea liturata LeConte 1866
liturata = 'smeared'
Size
7-12 mm(1)
Range
e. NA (NS-FL to AB-TX)(1)
Remarks
common at lights
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2007 - 4:14pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 4 February, 2015 - 5:20pm

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