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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Melandryinae » Hypulini » Hypulus

Genus Hypulus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Melandryinae
Tribe Hypulini
Genus Hypulus
Explanation of Names
Hypulus Paykull 1798
Numbers
1-2 spp. in our area (H. californicus is not congeneric with H. simulator)(1), 9 total(2)
Range
holarctic, by far more diverse in Eurasia(2); in our area, H. simulator in e. NA, H. californicus OR-CA(1)
Remarks
Hypulus pronus listed in(3) is actually a species of Phloiotrya (Darren Pollock, pers. comm. to =v= 6.ii.2015)
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.BioLib.cz
3.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 26 September, 2006 - 8:20pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 6 February, 2015 - 10:41am

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