Pythidae

The family Pythidae is a small group of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name dead log bark beetles. There are about 10 genera and 17 described species in Pythidae.[1][2][3][4]

Pytho kolwensis

Pythidae
Pytho depressus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Pythidae
Solier, 1834

Genera

These 10 genera belong to the family Pythidae:

  • Conomorphus Champion, 1889 g
  • Ischyomius Chevrolat, 1878 g
  • Osphyoplesius Winkler, 1915 g
  • Physiomorphus Pic, 1917 g
  • Priognathus LeConte, 1850 i c g b
  • Pytho Latreille, 1796 i c g b
  • Pythoceropsis Wickham, 1913 g
  • Sphalma Horn, 1872 i c g b
  • Techmessa Bates, 1874 g
  • Trimitomerus Horn, 1888 i c g b

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

References
  1. "Pythidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. "Browse Pythidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. "Pythidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. "Pythidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  • Gustafsson, B. Catalogus Coleopterorum Sueciae (2004), Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm.

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.
  • Bouchard, P. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. 88 (88): 88: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  • Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811.
  • Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
  • Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4.
  • 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.
  • Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (6210): 763–7. doi:10.1126/science.1257570. PMID 25378627.
  • Pollock, Darren A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 114. Pythidae Solier 1834. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 537–539. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
  • 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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