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Genus Hypocacculus

Histerid - Hypocacculus metallescens - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)

Subfamily Saprininae

Tribe Hypocaccini

Genus Hypocacculus

Explanation of Names

Hypocacculus Bickhardt 1914

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1), close to 80 total(2), but most are expected to be reassigned to other genera (A.K. Tishechkin, pers. comm. to =v= 7.i.2011)

Range

Old World (mostly Palaearctic & Afrotropical); in our area, FL only(1)

Remarks

recently found in FL by David Almquist

Works Cited

1.	Record of two species of Histeridae new to the North American fauna... A.K. Tishechkin. 2010. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 64(3): 287–288.

2.	Saprininae: Phylogeny, biogeography and a new classification of the subfamily (Coleoptera_ Histeridae) Lackner T., Zhang Y.M., Kindler C., Motyka M., Balke M. 2023. Syst. Entomol. 1―24.

Contributed by v belov on 28 December, 2010 - 4:46am
Last updated 10 August, 2023 - 7:42pm

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