Species Nycteus testaceus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Guess which beetle family - Nycteus testaceus

Guess which beetle family (Eucinetidae?) - Nycteus testaceus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Scirtoidea

Family Eucinetidae (Plate-thigh Beetles)

Genus Nycteus

Species testaceus (Nycteus testaceus)

Explanation of Names

Nycteus testaceus (LeConte 1866)

Identification

Pale & rather drastically narrowed behind

Range

transcontinental in the north (NB-NT-BC to ME-PA-WA)(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

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.

Contributed by v belov on 6 December, 2009 - 11:57am
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 6:54pm

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