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Genus Paranovelsis

pale, newly eclosed, now darked - Paranovelsis aequalis Novelsis perplexa (Jayne) - Paranovelsis perplexa Novelsis perplexa (Jayne) - Paranovelsis perplexa unknown beetle - Paranovelsis mcdonaldi unknown beetle - Paranovelsis mcdonaldi Carpet Beerle --? - Paranovelsis    - Paranovelsis varicolor Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Paranovelsis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
Tribe Attagenini
Genus Paranovelsis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
treated as a syn. of Novelsis in (1)
Explanation of Names
Paranovelsis Casey 1900
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, >20 total(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.World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera)
Jiří Háva. 2003. Studie a zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Brandýs n. Labem 2003 Supplementum 1.