Pytho americanus is a species of dead log beetle in the family Pythidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3] This beetle is able to overwinter both as a larva and an adult. It synthesizes glycerol during cold acclimation.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Pythidae |
| Genus: | Pytho |
| Species: | P. americanus
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| Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
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References
edit- ^ a b "Pytho americanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Pytho americanus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Pytho americanus species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Tanaka, Kazuhiro; Ito, Kiyomitsu (2021-06-28). "Winter polyol metabolism of the house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum is essentially the same between adults and nymphs". Acta Arachnologica. 70 (1). Arachnological Society of Japan: 33–34. doi:10.2476/asjaa.70.33. ISSN 0001-5202.
Further reading
edit- Pollock, Darren A. (1991). "Natural history, classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographic history of Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Heteromera: Pythidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 123: 3–104. doi:10.4039/entm123154fv.
- Pollock, Darren A. (1998). "Nomenclatural Changes in Pythidae and Pyrochroidae (Coleoptera)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 52 (4): 388–390. JSTOR 4009347.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.