Species Ditylus gracilis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

False Blister Beetle - Family: Oedemeridae - Ditylus gracilis? - Ditylus gracilis

Jane noticed this guy wandering down the trail - Ditylus gracilis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Oedemerinae

Tribe Ditylini

Genus Ditylus

Species gracilis (Ditylus gracilis)

Explanation of Names

Ditylus gracilis LeConte 1854

Size

12-21 mm(1)

Range

AK-OR(2)(1)

Remarks

not rare(1)

Works Cited

1.	The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest Hatch, M. 1953. University of Washington publications in biology, Volume 16. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington.

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 Tim Loh on 13 November, 2010 - 9:57pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2015 - 1:55pm

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