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Species Peltis fraterna

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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 Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Peltidae
Genus Peltis
Species fraterna (Peltis fraterna)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
recently reinstated(1), formerly treated as a synonym of the Palaearctic P. ferruginea
Explanation of Names
Peltis fraterna Randall 1838
Range
across n. NA south to PA-SD-NM-CA(2)
Works Cited
1.Review of Nearctic species of Ostoma (Coleoptera: Cleroidea, Trogositidae)
Barron J.R. 1996. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 89: 193-202.
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.