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Turtle Beetles (Chelonariidae)
Family Chelonariidae - Turtle Beetles
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily
Byrrhoidea
Family
Chelonariidae (Turtle Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Chelonariidae Blanchard 1845
Numbers
A single species in our area
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1
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, 250 spp. in 3 genera total
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2
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Size
2.5-10 mm
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1
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Range
Chelonarium
throughout the warmer parts of the world, most diverse in the Neotropics; other genera Oriental & Australasian
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1
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Remarks
Occasionally at lights
Print References
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3
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Internet References
Family overview
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4
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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.
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.
3.
Water Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2003. Clemson University.
4.
Lawrence J.F., et al. (2000-2005) Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification...
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 16 November, 2006 - 6:49am
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 12 January, 2015 - 10:16pm