Pocadius

Pocadius
Pocadius ferrugineus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Nitidulinae
Tribe:	Nitidulini
Genus:	Pocadius Erichson, 1843

Pocadius is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about nine described species in Pocadius.

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Pocadius:

• Pocadius adustus Reitter, 1888 ^g
• Pocadius basalis Schaeffer, 1911 ^{i c g}
• Pocadius centralis Cline, 2008 ^{i c g}
• Pocadius ferrugineus (Fabricius, 1775) ^g
• Pocadius fulvipennis Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Pocadius helvolus Erichson, 1843 ^{i c g b} (hairy puffball beetle)
• Pocadius luisalfredoi Cline, 2008 ^{i c g}
• Pocadius niger Parsons, 1936 ^{i c g}
• Pocadius tepicensis Cline, 2008 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Cline, Andrew R. (2008). "Revision of the sap beetle genus Pocadius Erichson, 1843 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae)". Zootaxa. 1799 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1799.1.1.
• Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.

External links

• Media related to Pocadius at Wikimedia Commons