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Species Pytho americanus

Beetle - Pytho americanus Pythos in love triangle - Pytho americanus - male Pytho planus larva? - Pytho americanus Dead Log Beetle larva - Pytho americanus Dead Log Beetle - Pytho americanus Pytho planus - Pytho americanus - male Pytho americanus - male Dead Log Beetle - Pytho americanus
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 Pythidae (Dead Log Beetles)
Genus Pytho
Species americanus (Pytho americanus)
Other Common Names
Pytho planus (Olivier 1795)
Explanation of Names
Pytho americanus Kirby 1837
Size
7.1‒14.8 mm(1)
Range
transcontinental in the north (LB‒NT‒AK south to GA‒AR in the east, to CO‒CA in the west)(2)
Print References
Ring R.A., Tesar D. (1980) Cold-hardiness of the Arctic beetle, Pytho americanus Kirby Coleoptera, Pythidae (Salpingidae). J. Insect Physiol. 26: 763–774 (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.Additional distribution records for the genus Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Pythidae)
Powell G.S., Brattain R.M., Holland J.D. 2015. Col. Bull. 69: 761‒765.