Mycteridae
| Mycteridae | |
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| Mycterus curculioides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845 |
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The family Mycteridae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name palm and flower beetles. The family Mycteridae is distributed worldwide. There are about 30 genera and 160 species in three subfamilies Mycterinae, Hemipeplinae and Lacconotinae (=Eurypinae).[1] About 20 species are found in Australia, species of three genera are found in North America (Mycterus, Hemipeplus and Lacconotus)[2][3]
References
- ^ Pollock, Darren A.; Chaboo, Caroline S. (2016). "Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 89 (2): 174–177. doi:10.2317/0022-8567-89.2.174. S2CID 89514999.
- ^ Hawkeswood, Trevor (1987). Beetles of Australia. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0-207-15352-3.
- ^ Michael A. Ivie (2002). Ross H. Arnett & Michael Charles Thomas (ed.). American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Volume 2 of American Beetles. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
Further reading
- Pollock, Darren A. (2010). "Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845". In Leschen, Richard A. B.; Beutel, Rolf G.; Lawrence, John F. (eds.). Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). Coleoptera, Beetles. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 693–699. doi:10.1515/9783110911213.693.
- Löbl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2008). "Family Mycteridae Blanchard, 1845". Tenebrionoidea. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5. Stenstrup: Apollo Books. pp. 412–413. doi:10.1163/9789004260900. ISBN 9789004260900.
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