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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Comb-clawed Beetles (Alleculinae) » Gonoderina » Pseudocistela

Genus Pseudocistela

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Pseudocistela pinguis? - Pseudocistela pinguis beetle - Pseudocistela brevis - female what family? - Pseudocistela marginata Pseudocistela pacifica - Pseudocistela pinguis Which Comb-clawed Beetle is this? - Pseudocistela opaca Beetle - Pseudocistela opaca beetle - Pseudocistela Alleculidae - Pseudocistela brevis
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 Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Alleculinae (Comb-clawed Beetles)
Subtribe Gonoderina
Genus Pseudocistela
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
P. amoena (Say) is now treated in Chromatia(1)
Explanation of Names
Pseudocistela Crotch 1873
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), dozens worldwide
not yet in guide: P. pectinata Hopping 1933 [BC]
Range
in our area, 2 spp. eastern (one rather widespread, another along the US Atlantic Coast) and 3 western(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 6 December, 2006 - 2:26am
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 15 December, 2023 - 6:19am

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