Carpophilus melanopterus

Carpophilus melanopterus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Genus:	Carpophilus
Species:	C. melanopterus
Binomial name
Carpophilus melanopterus Erichson, 1843

Carpophilus melanopterus is a species of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in Central America and North America. ^[2]

References

• Insects portal

1. "Carpophilus melanopterus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
2. "Carpophilus melanopterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.

• Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.
• Price, Michele B., and Daniel K. Young (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 69–84.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carpophilus melanopterus
• 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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