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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Mauroniscidae

Family Mauroniscidae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Works Cited
Mecomycter - Mecomycter omalinus Mauroniscidae Mecomycter omalinus - Mecomycter omalinus Unknown beetle - Dasyrhadus impressicollis Unknown beetle - Dasyrhadus impressicollis Melyridae in desert Melyridae from Box Canyon Coleoptera Mauroniscidae, swept from Geraea canescens.
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Mauroniscidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated in the Melyridae: Dasytinae
Explanation of Names
Mauroniscidae Majer 1995
Numbers
8 spp. in 3 genera in our area, 26 spp. in 5‒6 genera total(1)(2)
Size
2‒4.5 mm(3)
Range
New World: sw. US (to WY‒KS) to Chile & Argentina(4)(2)
Works Cited
1.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
2.Comprehensive phylogeny of the Cleroidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)
Gimmel M.L., Bocakova M., Gunter N.L., Leschen R.A.B. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 527‒558.
3.Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.
4.Synopsis of the described Coleoptera of the world
Contributed by v belov on 3 March, 2013 - 7:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 27 October, 2023 - 7:48pm

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