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Species Megatoma graeseri

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
Subfamily Megatominae
Tribe Megatomini
Subtribe Megatomina
Genus Megatoma
No Taxon (subgenus Pseudohadrotoma)
Species graeseri (Megatoma graeseri)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pseudohadrotoma graeseri
Explanation of Names
Megatoma (Pseudohadrotoma) graeseri (Reitter 1887)
Range
native to E Asia, adventive in NA (QC‒MB, WI)(1)(2)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: MB 1977 • not covered in (3)
Works Cited
1.A new record of Megatoma (Pseudohadrotoma) graeseri (Reitter, 1887) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Wisconsin, USA
Háva J., Brown R.C. 2015. Col. Bull. 69: 828‒829.
2.New records of Megatoma (Pseudohadrotoma) graeseri (Reitter, 1887) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Canada
Háva J., Nei I. 2016. Onychium 12: 135‒136.
3.Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 4: Scarabaeoidea... [through Cleroidea]
Klimaszewski J, Langor D, Smith A, Hoebeke E, Davies A, Pelletier G, Douglas HB, Webster RP, Bourdon C, Borowiec L, Scudder GGE. 2017. Pensoft Series Faunistica 116: 1‒215.