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Genus Palaminus

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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 Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Paederinae
Tribe Pinophilini
Genus Palaminus
Explanation of Names
Palaminus Erichson 1839
Numbers
14 species in our area, ~300 total(1)
Identification
key to species in Notman (1929)(2)
Range
e. NA to AZ-CA - Map (1)(3)(4), much of the world, primarily Neotropical & Arfotropical
Habitat
on foliage, in leaf litter(1)
Remarks
come to lights(1)
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.New species of Palaminus from the West Indies, together with a synoptic review of the genus.
Notman, H. 1929. American Museum Novitates 386: 1-17.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)