Species Nycteus oviformis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Works Cited

In the firewood stack - Nycteus oviformis

Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Nycteus oviformis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Scirtoidea

Family Eucinetidae (Plate-thigh Beetles)

Genus Nycteus

Species oviformis (Nycteus oviformis)

Explanation of Names

Nycteus oviformis (LeConte 1866)

Range

NB-VA to MB-IL(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	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 tom murray on 7 June, 2006 - 5:23pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2015 - 7:42pm

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