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Genus Nitidolimonius

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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 Elateridae (Click Beetles)
Subfamily Dendrometrinae
Tribe Dendrometrini
Subtribe Dendrometrina
Genus Nitidolimonius
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
species herein included were formerly treated as 'Ctenicera'
Explanation of Names
Nitidolimonius Johnson 2008
from the Latin nitidus 'shiny' (referring to the shiny integument) + Limonius, the original genus name of the type species(1)
Numbers
4 spp. in NA(2)(1):
N. appalachius (Van Dyke)
N. breweri (Horn)
N. resplendens (Eschscholtz)
N. weidtii (Angell)
Range
western, boreal, and eastern mountains(2)
Works Cited
1.The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes
C.G. Majka & P.J. Johnson. 2008. Zootaxa 1811: 1–33.
2.Johnson P.J. (2009) Classification of the Nearctic genera of Elateridae
Contributed by v belov on 18 February, 2010 - 11:34am
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 5:33pm

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