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Genus Xanthochroa

Representative Images

Xanthocroa testacea - Xanthochroa testacea Xanthochroa californica Horn - Xanthochroa californica oedemerid? - Xanthochroa erythrocephala oedemerid? - Xanthochroa erythrocephala Cantharidae? - Xanthochroa lateralis Xanthochrea californica? - Xanthochroa californica Beetle - Xanthochroa lateralis beetle gleaned from side of house - Xanthochroa testacea

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 Nacerdini
Genus Xanthochroa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated by some workers as subgenus of Nacerdes Dejean 1834

Explanation of Names

Xanthochroa Schmidt 1846

Numbers

6 spp. in our area(1), 24 total(2)

Range

holarctic(3); in our area, 4 spp. western (BC‒CA) and 2 eastern (ME‒FL‒LA)(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.Catalogue of Life
3.A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257‒391.
Contributed by v belov on 31 May, 2009 - 7:57am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 15 June, 2024 - 6:31pm

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