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Genus Stenelmis

Stenelmis quadri*maculata? - Stenelmis mirabilis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Byrrhoidea (Pill, Water and Toe-winged Beetles)

Family Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)

Subfamily Elminae

Tribe Elmini

Genus Stenelmis

Explanation of Names

Stenelmis Dufour 1835

Numbers

33 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

see(2); beware of subsequent changes in taxonomy/nomenclature

Range

most of NA(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.	A monographic revision of the North American species of Stenelmis (Drypoidae: Coleoptera) Sanderson M.W. 1938. U. Kans. Sci. Bull. 25: 635-717.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 July, 2005 - 4:36pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer, v belov
Last updated 26 October, 2017 - 12:30pm

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