Litargus

Litargus
Litargus balteatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Mycetophagidae
Genus:Litargus
Erichson, 1846

Litargus is a genus of hairy fungus beetles in the family Mycetophagidae. There are about 12 described species in Litargus.[1][2][3][4]

Litargus sexpunctatus

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Litargus:

  • Litargus balteatus LeConte, 1856 i c g b (stored grain fungus beetle)
  • Litargus coloratus Rosenhauer, 1856 g
  • Litargus connexus (Geoffroy, 1785) g
  • Litargus didesmus (Say, 1826) i c g b
  • Litargus grandis Schaeffer, 1910 i c g b
  • Litargus guadalupensis Grouvelle & Raffray, 1908 g
  • Litargus lewisi Reitter, 1889 g
  • Litargus nebulosus LeConte, 1856 i c g
  • Litargus pilosus Wollaston, 1857 g
  • Litargus sexpunctatus (Say, 1826) i c g b
  • Litargus tetraspilotus LeConte, 1856 i c g b
  • Litargus vestitus Sharp, 1879 i c g

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Litargus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Litargus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  3. 1 2 "Litargus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  4. 1 2 "Litargus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-24.

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.
  • Nikitsky, N.B. (2008). Löbl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. Mycetophagidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 51–55. ISBN 9788788757699.
  • Parsons, Carl T. (1975). "Revision of Nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 29 (2): 93–108. ISSN 0010-065X.
  • Scott, Hugh (1922). "Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, vol. 7, no. 4. Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae, Scaphidiidae, Phalacridae, Cucujidae (Supplement), Lathridiidae, Mycetophagidae (including Propalticus), Bostrychidae, Lyctidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, ser. 2, Zoology. 18: 195–260.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
  • Young, Daniel K. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H., eds. Family 96. Mycetophagidae Leach 1815. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 399–400. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.

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