Ischalia
| Ischalia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Ischaliidae |
| Subfamily: | Ischaliinae |
| Genus: | Ischalia Pascoe, 1860 |
Ischalia is a genus of broad-hipped flower beetles in the family Ischaliidae as the only genus.
In some schemes they are treated in the subfamily Ischaliinae, in the wider Tenebrionoidea. There are at least 3 described species of Ischalia in the United States.[1][2]
Selected Species
[edit]- Ischalia barclayi Young, 2011
- Ischalia californica Van Dyke, 1938
- Ischalia costata (LeConte, 1861)
- Ischalia indigacea Pascoe, 1860
- Ischalia vancouverensis Harrington, 1892
References
[edit]- ↑ "Ischalia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ↑ Lee, Seung-Gyu; Nam, Jong-Woo; Lim, Jongok (2017). "A taxonomic note on the little known Ischaliidae Blair and first record of Ischalia brachyptera Nikitsky in Korea (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 10 (2): 212–215. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2017.04.009.
Further reading
[edit]- 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 LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.