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Genus Rhinoplatia

Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia ruficollis False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Gray Orange Beetle - Rhinoplatia Rhinoplatia ruficollis? - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia mortivallicola Beetle from Alma Canyon - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Beetle from Alma Canyon - Rhinoplatia ruficollis
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 Rhinoplatia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
reviewed in(1)
Explanation of Names
Rhinoplatia Horn 1868
Numbers
2 spp. total, both in our area(2)
Range
sw. US (CA-NV-AZ)(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.A review of the genus Rhinoplatia Horn
Arnett R.H. 1947. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 49: 241-246.
2.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.
3.A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257-391.