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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Palm and Flower Beetles (Mycteridae) » Hemipeplus

Genus Hemipeplus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Hemipeplus chaos Thomas - Hemipeplus chaos

Florida Beetle for ID - Hemipeplus microphthalmus

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 Mycteridae (Palm and Flower Beetles)

Genus Hemipeplus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

reviewed in(1)

Explanation of Names

Hemipeplus Latreille 1825

Numbers

3 spp. in our area, dozens worldwide(2)

Identification

key to spp. in(3); larvae described in(4)

Range

warmer climes worldwide; in our area, se. US to TX; adventive in CA(2)

Remarks

our only representative of the subfamily Hemipeplinae Lacordaire 1854, that contains 2 genera, one widespread in warm climes worldwide and one precinctive to W. Indies(2)

Print References

(5)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World Hemipeplinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) with descriptions of ten new species Pollock D.A. 1999. Entomologica Scandinavica 30: 47-73.

2.	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.

3.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

4.	Description of the larvae of two species of Hemipeplus Latreille (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) Thomas M.C., Woodruff R.E. 1986. Insecta Mundi 1: 121-124.

5.	The species of Hemipeplus Latreille (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) in Florida, with a taxonomic history of the genus Thomas M.C. 1985. Col. Bull. 39: 365-375.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 January, 2008 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 February, 2015 - 5:35pm

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