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Genus Hypocoprus

Hypocoprus tenuis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Atomariinae
Genus Hypocoprus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
treated by some workers in a separate subfam., Hypocoprinae(1)
Explanation of Names
Hypocoprus Motschulsky 1839
Numbers
A single species in our area(2), another in the Palaearctic
Range
in our area, Rocky Mts.(2)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Hypocoprini Reitter 1879, that contains two small genera