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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Melandryinae » Dircaeini » Dircaea » Dircaea liturata

Species Dircaea liturata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Melandryinae
Tribe Dircaeini
Genus Dircaea
Species liturata (Dircaea liturata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dircaea quadrimaculata (Say) (1)
Explanation of Names
Dircaea liturata LeConte 1866
liturata = 'smeared'
Size
7-12 mm(2)
Range
e. NA (NS-FL to AB-e.TX) - Map (2)(3)
Remarks
common at lights
Print References
LeConte, J. L. 1866. New Species of North American Coleoptera Part I. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6 (1): 1-168.
Pollock, D.A. 2015. Lectotype designations in Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Boridae and Mycteridae, based on material in Museum of the Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Insecta Mundi 427: 1–15.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Treatment Bank (synonymy, some life history information)
Works Cited
1.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.
2.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2007 - 4:14pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 June, 2024 - 11:42am

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