Brassicogethes

Brassicogethes
Brassicogethes aeneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Meligethinae
Genus:	Brassicogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009

Brassicogethes is a genus of pollen beetles in the family Nitidulidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Brassicogethes:

• Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius, 1775) - common pollen beetle
• Brassicogethes arankae (Audisio & De Biase, 2005)
• Brassicogethes bithynicus (Audisio, 1988)
• Brassicogethes carpathicus (Audisio, Jelinek & Stevanovic, 1999)
• Brassicogethes cleominis (Easton, 1959)
• Brassicogethes epeirosi (Audisio, Mancini & De Biase, 2006)
• Brassicogethes erysimicola Audisio & De Biase, 2001
• Brassicogethes gracilis (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1863)
• Brassicogethes humerosus (Reitter, 1871)
• Brassicogethes lunariae (Audisio & De Biase, 1999)
• Brassicogethes prometheus (Jelínek, 1982) Jelinek, 1982
• Brassicogethes reitteri (Schilsky, 1894)
• Brassicogethes simplex (Kraatz, 1858)
• Brassicogethes simplipes (Easton, 1947)
• Brassicogethes spornrafti (Audisio, 1977)
• Brassicogethes squamosus (Jelinek & Marek, 1966)
• Brassicogethes thalassophilus (Audisio & De Biase, 2005)
• Brassicogethes viridescens (Fabricius, 1787)
• BOLD:AAC0575 (Brassicogethes sp.)
• BOLD:ABZ3786 (Brassicogethes sp.)
• BOLD:ACF0980 (Brassicogethes sp.)

References

1. "Brassicogethes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
2. "Brassicogethes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.

• Audisio, P., A. R. Cline, A. De Biase, G. Antonini, E. Mancini, M. Trizzino, L. Costantini, et al. (2009). "Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, vol. 49, no. 2, 341–504.

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.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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