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Genus Aethina

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 (Nitidulid series)

Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)

Subfamily Nitidulinae

Tribe Nitidulini

Genus Aethina

Explanation of Names

Aethina Erichson 1843

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area; large palaeotropical genus (5 subgenera)(1)

Works Cited

1.	A current generic classification of sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. Zoosystematica Rossica 17: 107-122.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 23 January, 2009 - 3:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 February, 2015 - 11:00am

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