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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Flower Beetles (Scraptiidae) » Anaspidinae » Pentariini » Pentaria » Pentaria dispar

Species Pentaria dispar

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Pentaria dispar (Liljeblad) - Pentaria dispar Pentaria dispar (Liljeblad) - Pentaria dispar pentaria? - Pentaria dispar Pentaria dispar (Liljeblad) - Pentaria dispar Scraptiidae Pentaria dispar - Pentaria dispar
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 Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Anaspidinae
Tribe Pentariini
Genus Pentaria
Species dispar (Pentaria dispar)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pentaria dispar (Liljeblad)
Orig. Comb: Anthobates dispar Liljeblad 1918
Numbers
6 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
Length: 2.5 mm. (2)
Identification

Det. Zack Falin, 2012
Range
c. US to AZ (AZ-TX-KS) - Map (2),(BG data),(Zack Falin, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2012)(3)
Habitat
can be common on var. flowers
Season
May-July (BG data)
Remarks
Type Locality: Jemez Mountains, New Mexico (2)
See Also
Notoxus murinipennis LeConte 1851
- Range: e. US
Det. M. A. Quinn, 2014
Print References
Liljeblad, E. 1918. Descriptions of eight new species of Coleoptera in the family Mordellidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 50: 153-158.
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.Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico
Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 27 January, 2012 - 3:52pm
Last updated 6 September, 2023 - 12:29pm

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