Biology:Mecomycter

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Mecomycter
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cleroidea
Family: Mauroniscidae
Genus: Mecomycter
Horn, 1882

Mecomycter is a genus of beetles in the family Mauroniscidae, historically included in the family Melyridae. The three known species of this genus are found in North America from Kansas west to California .[1]

Species

  • Mecomycter majeri Howell, 1997[2]
  • Mecomycter omalinus Horn, 1882
  • Mecomycter testaceus Majer, 1995

References

  1. Majer, K. 1995. Revision of the family Mauroniscidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Entomologische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 57(3): 57–89.
  2. Howell, C. D. 1997. Three new species of North American Dasytinae, with two new generic keys. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 70: 11–17.

Wikidata ☰ Q18607218 entry