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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Dryopoidea » Variegated Mud-loving Beetles (Heteroceridae)

Family Heteroceridae - Variegated Mud-loving Beetles

Heterocerid - Heterocerus intermuralis - male

Heterocerus texanus (Pacheco) - Heterocerus texanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Dryopoidea

Family Heteroceridae (Variegated Mud-loving Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

for most recent treatment see (1)

Explanation of Names

Heteroceridae W.S. MacLeay 1825

Numbers

~40 spp. in 3 genera in our area(2)(1), ~500 spp. in 15 genera worldwide(3)

Identification

Range

worldwide

Habitat

sandy or muddy shores of rivers, lakes, and ponds

Print References

(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)

Miller W.V. (1988) A new species of Heterocerus recorded from Florida and Canada (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae). Fla. Entomol. 71: 30‒33. (Full text)

Internet References

World checklist: (9)

Works Cited

1.	Molecular data resolves relationships within Heteroceridae (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea) King J.G., Starr J.R., Lago P.K. 2011. Syst. Entomol. 36: 435–445.

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.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

4.	Sistemática, filogenia y distribución de los heteroceridos de America : (Coleoptera : Heteroceridae) Pacheco F. 1964. Monografias del Colegio de Post-Graduados 1, Escuela Nacional de Agricultura, Chapingo, Mexico. xii + 155 pp.

5.	The variegated mud-loving beetles (Heteroceridae) of Mississippi and Alabama, with discussion and keys to se US spp. King, J.G. and P.K. Lago. 2012. Insecta Mundi 0275: 1-53.

6.	A catalog of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Family Heteroceridae. Pacheco, F. 1978. USDA, Agric. Handbook. x + 9 pp. 1978. USDA.

7.	Two new species of Heterocerus from North America, with notes on related species (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae). Miller, W.V. 1988. The Coleopterists Bulletin 42(4): 313-320.

8.	New species of Heteroceridae (Coleoptera) from Canada and the United States Miller W.V. 1994. Col. Bull. 48: 11‒18.

9.	Checklist of the Heteroceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the world Sazhnev, AS. 2024. Draft version.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 1 September, 2005 - 6:43am
Additional contributions by McClarinJ, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer, v belov
Last updated 24 March, 2024 - 8:53pm

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