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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Comb-clawed Beetles (Alleculinae) » Gonoderina » Isomira

Genus Isomira

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Tiny beetle - Isomira Darkling beetle - Isomira sericea Alleculinae (Comb-clawed Beetles) - Isomira sericea small alleculine - Isomira sericea Comb-clawed Beetle - Isomira Beetle - Isomira sericea Beetle - Isomira Lakehead-3 - Isomira
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Alleculinae (Comb-clawed Beetles)
Subtribe Gonoderina
Genus Isomira
Explanation of Names
Isomira Mulsant 1856
Numbers
14 spp. in our area(1); large subcosmopolitan genus
Range
holarctic, incl. much of the US and so. Canada; in our area, more diverse in the east (5 spp. western, of which 3 confined to CA)(1)
Print References
Marshall J.D. (1970a) Isomira Mulsant in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Alleculidae): redescriptions, new synonymies, and taxonomic notes on eastern North American species. Ent. News 81: 41-49.
Marshall J.D. (1970b) Isomira Mulsant in America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Alleculidae): species of eastern North America concluded. Col. Bull. 24: 88-95.
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
Contributed by tom murray on 24 August, 2005 - 4:51pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 4 December, 2018 - 5:00pm

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