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Genus Metaclisa

Metaclisa seditiosa? - Metaclisa seditiosa

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 Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Tenebrioninae

Tribe Metaclisini

Genus Metaclisa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tharsus LeConte 1862(1)

Explanation of Names

Metaclisa Jacquelin du Val 1861

Numbers

3 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

key to spp. in(1)

Range

holarctic & Oriental; in NA, 2 spp. along the Atlantic and one along the Pacific(1)

Works Cited

1.	New assignments among the genera Haplandrus LeConte, Metaclisa Jacquelin Du Val and Tharsus LeConte with descriptions... Steiner W.E. 2016. Ann. Zool. 66: 529-550.

Contributed by v belov on 12 April, 2010 - 10:10pm
Last updated 4 January, 2018 - 6:52am

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