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Tribe Macronychini

Canterbury River elmid - Macronychus glabratus

Yellow-legged Riffle Beetle - Macronychus glabratus

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 Byrrhoidea (Pill, Water and Toe-winged Beetles)

Family Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)

Subfamily Elminae

Tribe Macronychini

Numbers

3 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1)

Range

much of NA: Macronychus in the east, Zaitzevia in the west(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Elmidae Brown H.P. 1983. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143b. x + 23 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 7 October, 2010 - 9:52pm
Last updated 12 March, 2011 - 1:16pm

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