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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ant-like Leaf Beetles (Aderidae) » Aderini » Aderus

Genus Aderus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Anthicid - Aderus brunnipennis Aderid - Aderus populneus Aderid - Aderus Aderid - Aderus saginatus Aderidae? - Aderus brunnipennis Aderidae sp. - Aderus brunnipennis Colfax-2021.J.12 - Aderus brunnipennis Aderus saginatus? - Aderus saginatus
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 Aderidae (Ant-like Leaf Beetles)
Tribe Aderini
Genus Aderus
Explanation of Names
Aderus Westwood 1830
Numbers
4 spp. (incl. one adventive) in our area(1), >520 total(2)
Identification
keys to spp. in (1)(3)
Range
Worldwide(4)
Remarks
our only representative of the subtribe Aderina
Works Cited
1.The Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the USA and Canada
Gompel N. 2024. Col. Bull. 78(mo20): 1–84.
2.BioLib.cz
3.Revision of the Aderidae of eastern North America.
Werner, F.G. 1990. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 98: 187-232.
4.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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 8 March, 2007 - 7:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 December, 2024 - 4:49pm

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