Aclypea

Aclypea is a genus of carrion beetles in the family Silphidae. There are about 13 described species in Aclypea.[1][2][3]

Aclypea undata

Aclypea
Aclypea opaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Silphidae
Genus: Aclypea
Reitter, 1885

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Aclypea:

  • Aclypea bicarinata (Gebler, 1830)
  • Aclypea bituberosa (LeConte, 1859) (western spinach carrion beetle)
  • Aclypea opaca (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Aclypea reitteri Lomnicki, 1894
  • Aclypea souverbii (Fairmaire, 1848)
  • Aclypea undata (Müller, 1776)
  • Aclypea vetusta Lomnicki, 1894
  • Blitophaga calva (Reitter, 1885)
  • Blitophaga jacutica (Rjabukhin, 1990)
  • Silpha altaica (Gebler, 1830)
  • Silpha reitteri Lomnicki, 1894
  • Silpha sericea (Zubkov, 1833)
  • Silpha vetusta Lomnicki, 1894

References

  1. "Aclypea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Aclypea". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
  • Media related to Aclypea at Wikimedia Commons


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