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Genus Calitys

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Trogossitidae
Genus Calitys
Explanation of Names
Calitys Thomson 1859
Numbers
2 spp., both in our area(1)
Range
holarctic; in our area, one sp. transcontinental, another western (BC-CA-CO)(1)
Remarks
the sole member of the subfamily Calitynae Winkler 1924(2)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of the described Coleoptera of the world
2.Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Gimmel M.L., Bocakova M., Gunter N.L., Leschen R.A.B. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 527-558.