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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Broad-hipped Flower Beetles (Ischaliidae)

Family Ischaliidae - Broad-hipped Flower Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Black and orange beetle - Ischalia costata strange anthicid - Ischalia costata strange anthicid - Ischalia costata Ischalia costata Ischalia vancouverensis Ischalia costata (LeConte) - Ischalia costata broad-hipped flower beetle - Ischalia californica Ischalia costata (LeConte) - Ischalia costata
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 Ischaliidae (Broad-hipped Flower Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
a small group variously treated within Pyrochroidae and Anthicidae in the past(1); erroneously placed under Scraptiidae in(2) [clarification]
Explanation of Names
Ischaliidae Blair 1920
Numbers
a single genus worldwide with 34 spp. in two subgenera, of which 3 spp. of the subgenus Eupleurida occur in our area(1)(3)
Range
East & South Asia, with a few spp. in w. NA(3)
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.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
3.Three new Asian species of Ischalia Pascoe, 1860 (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae), with a world checklist of subgenera and species
Young D.K. 2007. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 83: 321-331.
Contributed by v belov on 31 May, 2017 - 3:23pm

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