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Xanthochroa
Genus
Xanthochroa
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
Explanation of Names
Xanthochroa
Schmidt 1846
Numbers
6 spp. in our area
(
1
)
Range
holarctic
(
2
)
; 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.
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 25 February, 2015 - 10:42am