Aclypea

Aclypea
Aclypea opaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Silphidae
Genus:Aclypea
Reitter, 1885

Aclypea is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about five described species in Aclypea.[1][2][3][4]

Aclypea undata

Species

These five species belong to the genus Aclypea:

  • Aclypea bicarinata (Gebler, 1830) g
  • Aclypea bituberosa (LeConte, 1859) i c g b (western spinach carrion beetle)
  • Aclypea opaca (Linnaeus, 1758) i c g b
  • Aclypea souverbii (Fairmaire, 1848) g
  • Aclypea undata (Müller, 1776) g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Aclypea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Aclypea". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. 1 2 "Aclypea". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. 1 2 "Aclypea Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.

Further reading

  • 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. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
  • Peck, Stewart B. (2001). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C., eds. Family 21. Silphidae Latreille, 1807. American Beetles. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press. pp. 268–271. ISBN 0-8493-1925-0.
  • Ratcliffe, Brett (1996). The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska. University of Nebraska State Museum.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

  • Media related to Aclypea at Wikimedia Commons


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