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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Silvanoprus
Genus
Silvanoprus
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Cucujoidea
No Taxon
(Cucujid series)
Family
Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)
Subfamily
Silvaninae
Genus
Silvanoprus
Explanation of Names
Silvanoprus
Reitter 1911
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, both adventive
(
1
)
, 19 spp. worldwide
(
2
)
Range
Old World, most diverse in the Oriental Region (with some Afrotropical representation and 1 sp. in Europe); in NA, two adventive spp. established across e. & so. US
(
2
)
(
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.
Thomas M.C. (-2011) A preliminary checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 30 July, 2008 - 7:36pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 9 January, 2015 - 12:44am