Brassicogethes aeneus

Brassicogethes aeneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Nitidulidae
Subfamily: Meligethinae
Genus: Brassicogethes
Species: B. aeneus
Binomial name
Brassicogethes aeneus
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Meligethes californicus LeConte, 1857
  • Meligethes dauricus Reitter, 1871
  • Meligethes moerens LeConte, 1868
  • Meligethes mutatus Harold, 1868
  • Meligethes rufimanus Motschulsky, 1849

Brassicogethes aeneus, known generally as common pollen beetle, is a species of pollen beetle in the family Nitidulidae. Other common names include the rape pollen beetle and rape blossom beetle.[1][2] It is found in Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.[2]

A subspecies of Brassicogethes aeneus is B. aeneus dauricus.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Brassicogethes aeneus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  2. 1 2 "Brassicogethes aeneus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.

  • Audisio, P., A. R. Cline, A. De Biase, G. Antonini, E. Mancini, M. Trizzino, L. Costantini, et al. (2009). "Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, vol. 49, no. 2, 341-504.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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