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Genus Osphya

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Beetle ID - Osphya varians Osphya lutea (Horn) - Osphya lutea Beetle - Osphya varians beetle - Osphya lutea Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Osphya varians Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Osphya varians Osphya varians? - Osphya varians Beetle - Osphya lutea

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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Genus Osphya

Explanation of Names

Osphya Illiger 1807

Numbers

3 spp. in our area(1), ~25 worldwide(2)

Identification

key to spp. in Van Dyke (1928) (3)

Range

in NA, O. varians widespread in e. half of the continent, other spp. restricted to CA(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the subfamily Osphyinae Mulsant 1856 (1839) that contains a total of 35 spp. in 4 genera(2)

Print References

Van Dyke, E.C. 1928. New species of heteromerous Coleoptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 23(5): 251-262.

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
3.The Beetles of the United States: A Manual for Identification.
Ross H. Arnett, Jr. 1968. The American Entomological Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. xii + 1112 pp.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 16 May, 2008 - 4:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 4 April, 2021 - 2:57pm

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