Catops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Leiodidae
Subfamily:
Cholevinae
Genus:
Catops

Paykull, 1798

Catops is a genus of small carrion beetles in the family Leiodidae. There are about 16 described species in Catops.[1][2]

Species

  • Catops alpinus Gyllenhal, 1827
  • Catops alsiosus (Horn, 1885)
  • Catops americanus Hatch, 1928
  • Catops apterus Peck and Cook, 2002
  • Catops basilaris Say, 1823
  • Catops davidsoni Salgado, 1999
  • Catops egenus (Horn, 1880)
  • Catops geomysi Peck & Skelley, 2001
  • Catops gratiosus (Blanchard, 1915)
  • Catops kirbii (Spence, 1813)
  • Catops luridipennis Mannerheim, 1853
  • Catops luteipes Thomson, 1884
  • Catops mathersi Hatch, 1957
  • Catops neomeridionalis Peck and Cook, 2004
  • Catops newtoni Peck, 1977
  • Catops paramericanus Peck & Cook, 2002
  • Catops simplex Say, 1825

References

  1. ↑ "Catops Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Catops Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  • Majka C, Langor D (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ZooKeys 2: 357–402.
  • Peck, Stewart B. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, eds. (2001). "Family 19. Leiodidae Fleming, 1821". American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, 250–258.
  • Peck, Stewart B., and Joyce Cook (2002). "Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America". The Canadian Entomologist, vol. 134, no. 6, 723–787.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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