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Oxycopis
Genus
Oxycopis
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
Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Subfamily
Oedemerinae
Tribe
Asclerini
Genus
Oxycopis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated as a subgenus of
Oxacis
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1
)
Explanation of Names
Oxycopis
Arnett 1951
Numbers
13 spp. in our area
(
1
)
; 9 known from FL
(
2
)
Range
throughout the US, but much more diverse in the south
(
1
)
: just 4 spp. are found in ne. states, of which only one reaches New England
(
3
)
Habitat
adults found mostly on various flowers
(
1
)
; plant associations in FL listed in
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2
)
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.
Arnett R.H., Jr. (2000-2005) False blister beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
3.
The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
Contributed by
v belov
on 7 April, 2009 - 10:44am
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 9:36am