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Genus Clypastraea

Minute Hooded Beetle - Clypastraea fasciata Hooded tiny beetle - Clypastraea sp-one Sericoderus ? - Clypastraea lunata - female Tiny Beetle - Clypastraea lepida Corylophidae - Clypastraea lunata Unk beetle - Clypastraea Corylophidae? - Clypastraea Minute Hooded Beetle - Clypastraea
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)
Tribe Parmulini
Genus Clypastraea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sacium LeConte, Molamba Casey
Explanation of Names
Clypastraea Haldeman 1842
Numbers
16 spp. in our area(1)
Range
worldwide(2) and across NA(1)
See Also
Nipus (Coccinellidae)
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.