Paracotalpa ursina

Paracotalpa ursina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Scarabaeidae
Genus:Paracotalpa
Species: P. ursina
Binomial name
Paracotalpa ursina
(Horn, 1867)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cotalpa leonina Casey, 1915
  • Paracotalpa piceola Casey, 1915
  • Pocalta brevis Casey, 1915
  • Pocalta laevicauda Casey, 1915
  • Pocalta nigripennis Fall, 1932
  • Pocalta rotunda Saylor, 1940
  • Pocalta rubripennis Casey, 1915
  • Pocalta seriata Casey, 1915

Paracotalpa ursina is a species of shining leaf chafer in the family of beetles known as Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3][4]

Subspecies

These four subspecies belong to the species Paracotalpa ursina:

  • Paracotalpa ursina piceola Saylor, 1940 c g
  • Paracotalpa ursina rotunda b
  • Paracotalpa ursina rubripennis b
  • Paracotalpa ursina ursina g b

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paracotalpa ursina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. 1 2 "Paracotalpa ursina species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "Paracotalpa ursina". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. 1 2 "Paracotalpa ursina Species 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.
  • Hardy, A. (1991). A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico: Family Scarabaeidae, Subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae (PDF). USDA Agriculture Handbook.
  • 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.
  • Moore, M.R.; Jameson, M.L.; Garner, B.H.; Audibert, C.; et al. (2017). "Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies". ZooKeys. 666. doi:10.3897/zookeys.666.9191.
  • Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas" (PDF). Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

  • Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Retrieved 2018-05-06.


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