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Genus Oxylaemus

Unknown beetle 2 - Oxylaemus californicus

Bothrideridae - Oxylaemus californicus? - Oxylaemus californicus

Monotomidae of sorts? - Oxylaemus californicus

Tenebrionoidea- Zopheridae - Oxylaemus americanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Bothriderid group)

Family Teredidae

Genus Oxylaemus

Explanation of Names

Oxylaemus Erichson 1845

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1), 4 total(2)

Range

holarctic; O. americanus e. US (NJ-FL-OK); O. californicus Pacific Northwest (BC-CA)(1)

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.	BioLib.cz

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 7 January, 2008 - 5:25pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 February, 2015 - 12:57pm

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