Acritus

Acritus
Acritus nigricornis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Histeridae
Tribe:	Acritini
Genus:	Acritus LeConte, 1853

Acritus is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 110 described species in Acritus. ^{[1] [2]}

Acritus nigricornis

See also

• List of Acritus species

References

1. "Acritus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
2. "Acritus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.

• Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.

Further reading

• 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.
• 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, Acritus