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Species Adelothyreus downiei

Deltometopus amoenicornis? - Adelothyreus downiei

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 Eucnemidae (False Click Beetles)

Subfamily Melasinae

Tribe Dirhagini

Genus Adelothyreus

Species downiei (Adelothyreus downiei)

Explanation of Names

Adelothyreus downiei Muona 2000

Range

e US, scattered records (VA-IN-OK-TX)(1)(2)(3)

Works Cited

1.	An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

2.	An annotated list of the false click beetles of Virginia (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae). Hoffman, R.L., R.L. Otto, and R. Vigneault. 2009. Banisteria 34: 25-32.

3.	A revision of the Nearctic Eucnemidae Muona J. 2000. Acta Zoologica Fennica 212: 1-106.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 31 March, 2009 - 10:13pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 October, 2017 - 3:33pm

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