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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Afrogethes
Genus
Afrogethes
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Cucujoidea
No Taxon
(Nitidulid series)
Family
Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily
Meligethinae (Pollen Beetles)
Genus
Afrogethes
Explanation of Names
Afrogethes
Audisio & Cline 2009
Numbers
2 spp. in our area [
A. canadensis
(Easton),
A. saevus
(J. LeConte)], ~150 spp. total (of which many undescribed), arrange into at least five species-groups
(
1
)
Size
worldwide, 1.4–4.4 mm
(
1
)
Range
mainly Afrotropical, with meager representation in Europe, e. Asia, and NA
(
1
)
Food
various species-groups are associated with flowers of Verbenaceae, Boraginaceae, Fabaceae
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Audisio P., Cline A.R., De Biase A., et al. 2009. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341–504.
Contributed by
v belov
on 3 April, 2012 - 11:28pm