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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae) » Cylindrical Bark Beetles (Colydiinae) » Synchitini

Tribe Synchitini

Representative Images

Red and Black Beetle - Bitoma crenata Cylindrical Bark Beetle - Synchita parvula Tenebrionid? - Bitoma quadriguttata Portland Bioblitz 2012 PDX46 - Namunaria pacifica Zopheridae - Lasconotus Bitoma exarata? - Bitoma exarata Cylindrical Bark Beetle on stump - Microprius rufulus Namunaria guttulata

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 Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)
Subfamily Colydiinae (Cylindrical Bark Beetles)
Tribe Synchitini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Adimerini Sharp 1894 [see (1)]

Explanation of Names

Synchitini Erichson 1845

Numbers

the largest tribe in the family, with ~60 spp. in 19 genera in our area and >110 genera worldwide(2); 14 spp. in 6 genera reach Canada(3)

Range

worldwide, incl. most of NA(2)

Works Cited

1.Colydiine genera (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) of the New World: A key and nomenclatural acts 30 Years in the making.
Ivie, M.A., N.P. Lord, I.A. Foley and S.A. Ślipiński. 2016. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70(4): 755–788.
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.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by v belov on 12 November, 2009 - 9:10am
Last updated 20 January, 2017 - 9:40am

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