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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cebrioninae » Cebrionini » Selonodon » Selonodon compositus

Species Selonodon compositus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Selonodon compositus (Fall) - Selonodon compositus Selonodon compositus (Fall) - Selonodon compositus
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 Cebrioninae
Tribe Cebrionini
Genus Selonodon
Species compositus (Selonodon compositus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. Comb: Cebrio compositus Fall 1907
Explanation of Names
compositus - apparently Latin for 'placed with' (1)
Numbers
25 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Range
NM-TX-OK (3), (Shepard, 1978)
Remarks
Type Locality: Santa Fe, NM
Print References
Galley, K.E.M. 1999. Revision of the genus Selonodon Latreille (Coleoptera: Cebrionidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, vol. 10, 49 pp.
Shepard, W.D. 1978. Records of Minor Families of Coleoptera from Oklahoma. Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 58: 44-47.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.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.
3.Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico ("The Leng Catalogue")
Charles W. Leng. 1920. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY. x + 470 pp.
Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 30 July, 2010 - 8:17pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 27 August, 2010 - 3:56pm

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