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Genus Clypastraea

Corylophid ? - Clypastraea fasciata Lighter Clypastraea? - Clypastraea fasciata Corylophidae - Clypastraea lunata Tiny beetle - Clypastraea Very small beetle - Clypastraea Aenigmaticum californicum? - Clypastraea Clypastraea obesa Clypastraea ornata
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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 7 July, 2006 - 8:33pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 February, 2015 - 12:30pm

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