Catops

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

Catops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Leiodidae
Subfamily:	Cholevinae
Genus:	Catops Paykull, 1798

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

• 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.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Catops