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Genus Aenigmaticum

Aenigmaticum californicum Casey - Aenigmaticum californicum

Minute beetle - Aenigmaticum californicum

SBBG-SCL-TIC_000789 - Aenigmaticum californicum

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 Corylophidae (Minute Hooded Beetles)

Genus Aenigmaticum

Explanation of Names

Aenigmaticum Matthews 1888

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1)

Range

FL, AZ-CA(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the tribe Aenigmaticini Casey 1900, that contains one more monotypic genus (New Zealand)(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.	Phylogeny and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) with descriptions of new genera and larvae Ślipiński A., Tomaszewska W., Lawrence J.F. 2009. Systematic Entomology 34: 409–433.

Contributed by v belov on 22 February, 2011 - 4:11pm
Last updated 17 February, 2015 - 12:20pm

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