Tarsosteninae is a subfamily of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are at least two genera and two described species in Tarsosteninae.[1][2][3]
| Tarsosteninae | |
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| Tarsostenus univittatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cleridae |
| Subfamily: | Tarsosteninae Jacquelin du Val, 1860 |
Genera
editThese two genera belong to the subfamily Tarsosteninae:
- Paratillus Gorham, 1876
- Tarsostenus Spinola, 1844
References
edit- ^ "Tarsosteninae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Tarsosteninae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
Further reading
edit- Majka, Christopher G. (2006). "The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada". Zootaxa. 1385 (1): 31–46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1385.1.2.
- Mawdsley, Jonathan (2002). "Comparative ecology of the genus Lecontella Wolcott and Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), with notes on chemically defended species of the beetle family Cleridae". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 104 (1): 164–167. ISSN 0013-8797.
- Opitz, Weston (2002). "Family 73: Cleridae Latreille, 1804". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard (eds.). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 267–280. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
External links
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