Polycaon (beetle)

Polycaon
Polycaon chilensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Bostrichidae
Subfamily:Polycaoninae
Genus:Polycaon
Laporte, 1836

Polycaon is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are at least four described species in Polycaon.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These four species belong to the genus Polycaon:

  • Polycaon chilensis (Erichson, 1834) i c g
  • Polycaon granulatus Van Dyke, 1923 i c g
  • Polycaon punctatus LeConte, 1866 i c g
  • Polycaon stoutii (LeConte, 1853) i c g b (black polycaon)

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Polycaon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Polycaon". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  3. 1 2 "Polycaon". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  4. 1 2 "Polycaon Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

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.
  • Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
  • 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.
  • Ivie, Michael A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E., eds. Family 69. Bostrichidae Latreille 1802. American Beetles volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 233–244. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
  • 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.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.


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