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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Discodon

Cantharid - Discodon abdominale mating beetles - Discodon planicolle Discodon abdominale? - Discodon abdominale Discodon purpurascens? - Discodon Discodon purpurascens? - Discodon Discodon? - Discodon Discodon? - Discodon Discodon? - Discodon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
Subfamily Silinae
Tribe Silini
Genus Discodon
Explanation of Names
Discodon Gorham 1881
Numbers
5 nominal spp. in our area, ~350 total(1)
Range
large neotropical group ranging into sw. US (AZ-TX)(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.