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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Plate-thigh and Marsh Beetles (Scirtoidea)

Superfamily Scirtoidea - Plate-thigh and Marsh Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Works Cited
Scirtes oblongus Guérin-Méneville - Scirtes oblongus Scirtid - Prionocyphon discoideus - female Marsh Beetle - Contacyphon Eucinetid... - Nycteus infumatus Beetle - Sacodes pulchella Beetle - Contacyphon Elodes sp? - Elodes Scirtid of sorts... - Herthania concinna
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Scirtoidea (Plate-thigh and Marsh Beetles)
Numbers
3 families in our area, 4 total(1)
Works Cited
1.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 9:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2015 - 5:42am

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