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Genus Renclasea

Renclasea Renclasea falli Tishechkin & Caterino --holotype - Renclasea falli Renclasea falli Tishechkin & Caterino --holotype - Renclasea falli Renclasea falli Tishechkin & Caterino --holotype - Renclasea falli Clown Beetle - Renclasea Clown Beetle - Renclasea Clown Beetle - Renclasea Clown Beetle - Renclasea
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)
Subfamily Haeteriinae
Genus Renclasea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Euclasea is not in our area; records of Euclasea spp.(1) actually refer to Renclasea(2)
Explanation of Names
Renclasea Tishechkin & Caterino 2009
Numbers
6 spp. (one undescribed) in our area(2)
Habitat
The only available host record is association of R. mexicana with Neivamyrmex sp.(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A new North American genus of Hetaeriinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae), with descriptions of six new species from the USA and Mexico
A.K. Tishechkin & M.S. Caterino. 2009. Zootaxa 2311: 1–18.