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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Dircaea
Genus
Dircaea
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)
Subfamily
Melandryinae
Tribe
Dircaeini
Genus
Dircaea
Explanation of Names
Dircaea
Fabricius 1798
Numbers
2 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, a dozen total
(
2
)
Range
holarctic; in our area, one sp. widespread in the east (NS-FL to AB-TX), another in BC only
(
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
Phillip Harpootlian
on 2 June, 2005 - 7:41am
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 5 February, 2015 - 10:28am