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Subfamily Alleculinae - Comb-clawed Beetles

? - Lobopoda punctulata I06A9616 - Isomira Something in Hymenorus? - Mycetochara Coleoptera. - Mycetochara binotata Comb-clawed Beetle  - Lystronychus scapularis Mycetochara analis - male Florida Beetle for ID - Hymenorus dorsalis Mycetochara sp. - Mycetochara - male
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 Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Alleculinae (Comb-clawed Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Alleculinae Laporte 1840
Numbers
ca. 160 spp. in 19 genera in our area; 140 genera in 2 tribes worldwide; our genera are all in the Alleculini and represent all 4 recognized subtribes:(1)
Alleculina: worldwide; 6 genera in NA, incl. our largest alleculine genus Hymenorus, and Lobopoda; the remaining genera mostly southwestern
Gonoderina: Holarctic, with 7 genera in NA, more diverse in the east
Mycetocharina: Holarctic, with 2 genera in N/A
Xystropodina (=Lystronychina): New World; 2 genera in our area, both southwestern
Identification
pectinate claws gave the group its common name (not the only determining characteristic)
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.