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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Antlike Flower Beetles (Anthicidae) » Anthicinae » Amblyderus

Genus Amblyderus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Anthicid - Amblyderus parviceps Pale beach beetle - Anthicidae? - Amblyderus pallens Amblyderus parviceps? - Amblyderus parviceps Amblyderus – adventive from the old world - Amblyderus adventive-sp Amblyderus – adventive from the old world - Amblyderus adventive-sp Amblyderus – adventive from the old world - Amblyderus adventive-sp Amblyderus pallens Amblyderus pallens
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Anthicinae
Genus Amblyderus
Explanation of Names
Amblyderus LaFerté-Sénectère 1847
Numbers
a moderate-size worldwide genus with 7 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
Key to species (2)
Range
holarctic, Oriental and Afrotropical(3); in NA, coastal and interior dune areas(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.Revision of the North American species of Amblyderus with a checklist of the world species (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Donald S. Chandler . 1999. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 125, No. 3, pp. 269-293.
3.Telnov D. (2011) Anthicidae, Ant-like flower beetles (in The Tree of Life Web Project)
Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 30 March, 2009 - 9:56pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 19 December, 2019 - 9:08am

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