Sphaericus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Ptinidae |
Tribe: | Sphaericini |
Genus: | Sphaericus Wollaston, 1854 |
Sphaericus is a genus of spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are at least 30 described species in Sphaericus.[1][2][3][4]
Species
These 36 species belong to the genus Sphaericus:
- Sphaericus albopictus (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus ambiguus Wollaston, 1865 g
- Sphaericus ater Leiler, 1984 g
- Sphaericus bicolor Bélles, 1982 g
- Sphaericus crotchianus Wollaston, 1864 g
- Sphaericus dawsoni (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus erinaceus Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus exiguus (Boieldieu, 1854) g
- Sphaericus flavosquamosus Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus fragilis (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus franzi Leiler, 1984 g
- Sphaericus gibbicollis Wollaston, 1862 g
- Sphaericus gibboides Boieldieu, 1854 i c g b (humped spider beetle)
- Sphaericus leileri Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus longicornis (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus machadoi Belles, 1994 g
- Sphaericus marmoratus Wollaston, 1865 g
- Sphaericus naviculiformis Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus nigrescens (Wollaston, 1857) g
- Sphaericus niveus (Boieldieu, 1854) g
- Sphaericus nodulus (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus obscurus Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus orbatus (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus orzolensis Leiler, 1984 g
- Sphaericus pilula (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus pinguis (Wollaston, 1854) g
- Sphaericus ptinoides (Boieldieu, 1854) g
- Sphaericus rotundatus Wollaston, 1865 g
- Sphaericus rotundicollis Israelson, 1980 g
- Sphaericus saetiger Erber, 2000 g
- Sphaericus selvagensis Bellés, 2001 g
- Sphaericus simplex Wollaston, 1862 g
- Sphaericus thurepalmi Leiler, 1984 g
- Sphaericus truncatus g
- Sphaericus velhocabrali Israelson, 1984 g
- Sphaericus ventriculus Erber, 2000 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- ^ a b "Sphaericus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ a b "Browse Sphaericus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ a b "Sphaericus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ^ a b "Sphaericus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
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.
- 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.
- Philips, T. Keith (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Ptininae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 25 (2): 235–262. ISSN 0307-6970.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.