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Genus Boros

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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 Boridae (Conifer Bark Beetles)
Genus Boros
Explanation of Names
Boros Herbst 1797
Numbers
A single species in our area, 2 spp. total(1)
Range
holarctic (one sp. nearctic + one in n. Eurasia)
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 Jim McClarin on 14 May, 2006 - 7:16pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 March, 2013 - 8:13am

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