Amphotis

Amphotis
Amphotis marginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Nitidulidae
Tribe:Nitidulini
Genus:Amphotis
Erichson, 1843

Amphotis is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about five described species in Amphotis.[1][2][3][4]

Amphotis marginata

Species

These five species belong to the genus Amphotis:

  • Amphotis marginata (Fabricius, 1781) g
  • Amphotis martini C.Brisout de Barneville, 1878 g
  • Amphotis orientalis Reiche, 1861 g
  • Amphotis schwarzi Ulke, 1887 i c g b
  • Amphotis ulkei LeConte, 1866 i c g

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Amphotis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Amphotis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "Amphotis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. 1 2 "Amphotis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.

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. 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.
  • Lord, Nathan Patrick; Hartley, Christopher S.; Lawrence, John F.; McHugh, Joseph V.; et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (4): 753–763. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
  • Price, M.B.; Young, D.K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20: 69–84.
  • 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 Amphotis at Wikimedia Commons


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