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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Antlike Flower Beetles (Anthicidae) » Anthicinae » Ischyropalpus

Genus Ischyropalpus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Ischyropalpus occidentalis (Champion) - Ischyropalpus occidentalis Ischyropalpus subtilissimus (Pic) - Ischyropalpus subtilissimus Black and Red one - Ischyropalpus turgidicollis Beetle, dorsal - Ischyropalpus - female Antlike Flower Beetle - Ischyropalpus nitidulus Ischyropalpus cf. nitidulus? - Ischyropalpus Anthicidae? - Ischyropalpus Anthicus swept from quercus - Ischyropalpus nitidulus
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Anthicinae
Genus Ischyropalpus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Ischyropalpus LaFerté-Senéctère 1849
'one with enlarged feelers/palpi'
Numbers
13 spp. in our area(2)
Range
primarily Neotropical; in our area, most diverse in sw. US; I. nitidulus is widespread in Canada & the western 2/3 of the US, I. obscurus & I. sturmi are eastern, I. turgidicollis & I. cochisei are western and reach BC); none in FL or adjacent regions(1)(3)
Habitat
on flowers or vegetation(2)
Food
pollen, small arthropods(2)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic Ischyropalpus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Werner F.G. 1973. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 66: 1055-1064.
2.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.
3.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 27 August, 2006 - 10:39am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 February, 2015 - 9:25am

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