Polycaon (beetle)
Polycaon | |
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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 2 "Polycaon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- 1 2 "Browse Polycaon". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- 1 2 "Polycaon". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- 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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