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Genus Phymaphora

Handsome Fungus Beetle - Phymaphora pulchella - male Handsome Fungus Beetle - Phymaphora pulchella - female Endomychidae, dorsal - Phymaphora pulchella - female Phymaphora pulchella Newman - Phymaphora pulchella - male handsome fungus beetle - Phymaphora californica - male Phymaphora pulchella Phymaphora californica Phymaphora californica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Endomychidae (Handsome Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Leiestinae
Genus Phymaphora
Explanation of Names
Phymaphora Newman 1838
Numbers
2 spp. total, both in our area(1)
Range
one sp. widespread in e. NA, another in w. NA (BC-CA-NV)(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 11 March, 2006 - 8:56pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 February, 2015 - 10:07am

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