Carpophilus melanopterus is a species of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae.[1][2] It is found in Central America and North America.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Nitidulidae |
| Genus: | Carpophilus |
| Species: | C. melanopterus
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| Binomial name | |
| Carpophilus melanopterus Erichson, 1843
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References
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- ^ "Carpophilus melanopterus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ^ a b "Carpophilus melanopterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.
- Price, Michele B., and Daniel K. Young (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 69–84.
Further reading
edit- NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carpophilus melanopterus
- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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