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Species Prothalpia holmbergi

Possible Melyridae?? - Prothalpia holmbergi - male

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 Melandryini

Genus Prothalpia

Species holmbergi (Prothalpia holmbergi)

Explanation of Names

Prothalpia holmbergi (Mannerheim 1852)

Range

holarctic; in NA, west coast (AK-CA)(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

2.	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.

Contributed by Joyce Gross on 2 September, 2008 - 7:33pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 6 February, 2015 - 8:04am

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