Morychus (beetle)
| Morychus | |
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| Morychus aeneus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Byrrhidae |
| Tribe: | Pedilophorini |
| Genus: | Morychus Erichson, 1847 |
Morychus is a genus of pill beetles in the family Byrrhidae. There are at least three described species in Morychus.[1][2][3][4]
Species
[edit]These three species belong to the genus Morychus:
- Morychus aeneolus (LeConte, 1863) i c g b
- Morychus aeneus (Fabricius, 1775) g
- Morychus oblongus (LeConte, 1857) i c g b
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Morychus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- 1 2 "Browse Morychus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- 1 2 "Morychus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- 1 2 "Morychus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
Further reading
[edit]- Lawrence, John F.; Slipinski, Adam; Jäger, Olaf; Pütz, Andreas (2013). "The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species". Zootaxa. 3745 (3): 301–29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3745.3.1. PMID 25113351.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
External links
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Media related to Morychus at Wikimedia Commons
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