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Mycterus
Genus
Mycterus
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
)
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2
)
, ~20 total
Identification
key to spp. in
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3
)
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2
)
Range
mostly northern & southern temperate regions (several spp. in India); in NA, widespread, with gap in the interior of continent
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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.
Contributed by
Joyce Gross
on 5 June, 2008 - 10:35pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 2 June, 2024 - 8:11pm