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Subfamily Larainae

Elmidae, Lara avara LeConte, 1852 - Lara avara - male Lara avara Lara avara Phanocerus clavicornis Sharp - Phanocerus clavicornis Phanocerus clavicornis aquatic beetle larva in stream riffle - Lara another aquatic beetle in stream riffle - Lara Wynoochee Lara avara larva - Lara avara
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Byrrhoidea
Family Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)
Subfamily Larainae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be called Larinae, changed to remove homonymy with Larinae in Aves
Numbers
3 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1)
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.
Contributed by v belov on 12 March, 2011 - 7:58am
Last updated 8 October, 2013 - 1:19am

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