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Long-lipped Beetles (Telegeusidae)
Family Telegeusidae - Long-lipped Beetles
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily
Elateroidea
Family
Telegeusidae (Long-lipped Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Telegeusidae Leng 1920
Numbers
2 spp. in a single genus in our area
(
1
)
, 10 spp. in 3 genera total
(
2
)
Size
2.5-8 mm
(
1
)
Range
neotropical group (Ecuador to sw. US)
(
1
)
Remarks
females unknown (probably flightless), males rare but may be numerous at lights
(
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.
Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 20 December, 2008 - 9:33pm
Additional contributions by
Graham M
,
v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2019 - 10:09pm