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Genus Mycterus

yucca beetle - Mycterus quadricollis - male - female yucca beetle - Mycterus quadricollis - male yucca beetle - Mycterus quadricollis - female yucca beetle - Mycterus quadricollis - female Mycterus? - Mycterus quadricollis Lakehead-1 - Mycterus concolor Mycterus elongata? - Mycterus concolor Rusty Brown Flower Beetle - Mycterus concolor
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 Mycterus
Explanation of Names
Mycterus Clairville 1798
Numbers
7 spp. in our area(1)(2), ~20 total
Identification
key to spp. in (3)(2)
Range
mostly northern & southern temperate regions (several spp. in India); in NA, widespread, with gap in the interior of continent(1)
Remarks
our only representative of the nominate subfamily
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.Mycterus youngi Pollock (Coleoptera: Mycteridae), a New Species from the Great Lakes Region, with a Revised Key to Species of NA
Darren A. Pollock. 2012. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66(l):23-26.
3.A new species of Mycterus Clairville (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) from Florida. with a key to species of America North of Mexico
Darren A. Pollock. 1993. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 47(3):309-3l4.