Gnathium

Gnathium
Gnathium minimum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Meloidae
Tribe:	Nemognathini
Genus:	Gnathium Kirby, 1818

Gnathium is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are about 13 described species in Gnathium.

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Gnathium:

• Gnathium californicum (Wickham, 1905) ^{i c g b}
• Gnathium caviceps MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium eremicola MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium francilloni Kirby, 1818 ^{i c g b}
• Gnathium longicolle LeConte, 1858 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium martini MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium minimum (Say, 1823) ^{i c g b}
• Gnathium nannulum MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium nitidum Horn, 1870 ^{i c g b}
• Gnathium obscurum MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium politum Dillon, 1952 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium texanum Horn, 1870 ^{i c g}
• Gnathium vandykei MacSwain, 1952 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bologna, Marco A.; Pinto, John D. (2001). "Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy". Systematic Entomology. 26 (1): 33–72. ISSN 0307-6970.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. 88 (88). Pensoft Publishers. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
• MacSwain, J.W. (1952). "A Synopsis of the Genus Gnathium, with Description of New Species (Coleoptera, Meloidae)". The Wasmann Journal of Biology. 10 (2): 205–224.
• Pinto, J.D.; Bologna, M.A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. ISSN 0022-2933.
• Pinto, John D.; Bologna, Marco A. (2002). Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 522–529. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Gnathium at Wikimedia Commons