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Species Smicrips texana

Smicrips texana (Casey) - Smicrips texana

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

No Taxon (Nitidulid series)

Family Smicripidae (Palmetto Beetles)

Genus Smicrips

Species texana (Smicrips texana)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tisiphone texana Casey 1916

may be synonymous with S. palmicola LeConte(1)

Explanation of Names

Smicrips texana (Casey)

Size

1.0-1.4 mm (2)

Range

c.FL, c.-s.TX - Map (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)

Remarks

Type series: Texas (Austin [County] and Brownsville). Six specimens. (2)

third-most commonly coll'ed (mostly via pitfall traps, rarely via UV light) beetle sp. at Laguna Atascosa NWR, Cameron Co., TX(7)

Print References

Casey, T.L. (1916). II-Some random studies among the Clavicornia. Pp. 104, In: Casey, T.L. (ed.) Memoirs on the Coleoptera. VII. New Era Printing Company, Lancaster. 300 pp. (2)

Works Cited

1.	Smicrips palmicola

2.	Memoirs on the Coleoptera. VII. Casey, T.L. 1916. New Era Printing Company, Lancaster. 300 pp.

3.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

4.	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.

5.	Illustrated Beetle (Coleoptera) Inventory of the Sabal Palm Sanctuary (Cameron County, Texas) Edward G. Riley & Michael A. Quinn. 2011. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

6.	An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

7.	Beetle biodiversity response to vegetation restoration of mid-valley riparian woodland in the LRGV of southern Texas. King, J.E. 2015. Unpublished master's thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station. viii + 218 pp.

8.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by v belov on 2 July, 2010 - 12:03am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 8 August, 2025 - 2:10pm

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