Optioservus browni

Optioservus browni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Byrrhoidea
Family: Elmidae
Subfamily: Elminae
Tribe: Elmini
Genus: Optioservus
Species: O. browni
Binomial name
Optioservus browni
White, 1978

Optioservus browni is a species in the family Elmidae ("riffle beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga ("water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles").[1][2] The species is known generally as the "Brown's optioservus riffle beetle".[3] It is found in North America.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Optioservus browni Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  2. 1 2 "Optioservus browni Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  3. ↑ "Optioservus browni Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-21.

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.
  • Brown, Harley P. (1983). "A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico, Family: Elmidae". United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook, no. 529-50, x + 23 + i.
  • Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • White, D. S. (1978). "A revision of the Nearctic Optioservus (Coleoptera: Elmidae), with descriptions of new species". Systematic Entomology, vol. 3, no. 1, 59-74.


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