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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Dryopoidea » Variegated Mud-loving Beetles (Heteroceridae) » Tropicus

Genus Tropicus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Tropicus pusillus (Say) - Tropicus pusillus Tropicus?? - Tropicus beetle - Tropicus pusillus beetle - Tropicus pusillus Tropicus pusillus Tropicus pusillus Unknown beetle - Tropicus pusillus Tropicus pusillus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Dryopoidea
Family Heteroceridae (Variegated Mud-loving Beetles)
Genus Tropicus
Explanation of Names
Tropicus Pacheco 1964
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1)(2)(3)
Identification
Color pattern simple, among other characters(1)
Range
e. US to AZ - Map (4)
T. pusillus (Say) e. Canada to Panama
T. minutus (Fall) TX(1)
T. niger Skalický MS(2)
T. nigrellus King & Lago NC-FL-MS(3)
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.New species of Heteroceridae from the New World (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae)
Skalický, S. 2007. Koleopterologische Rundschau 77:171-178.
3.The variegated mud-loving beetles (Heteroceridae) of Mississippi and Alabama, with discussion and keys to se US spp.
King, J.G. and P.K. Lago. 2012. Insecta Mundi 0275: 1-53.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Cotinis on 16 August, 2006 - 8:14pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Brady Richards
Last updated 11 September, 2024 - 12:32pm

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