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Genus Pseudozonitis

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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 Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Pseudozonitis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in Pinto (2018) (1)
Explanation of Names
Pseudozonitis Dillon 1952
Numbers
15 spp. in our area, 20 total(1)
Identification
key to spp. in (1)
feature critical for identifying Pseudozonitis is degree of separation of eyes beneath head (relative to their separation on upper surface) (Pinto comment)
Range
s. US to Argentina & Bolivia; W. Indies(1)
Remarks
apparently nocturnal(2); comes to lights
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic review of the genus Pseudozonitis Dillon (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
Pinto J.D. 2018. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 144: 441-509.
2.The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis
Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A. 1999. J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 1 September, 2007 - 6:59am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2021 - 12:13pm

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