Catops basilaris

Catops basilaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Leiodidae
Subfamily:	Cholevinae
Genus:	Catops
Species:	C. basilaris
Binomial name
Catops basilaris Say, 1823

Lateral view

Catops basilaris is a species of small carrion beetle in the family Leiodidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in North America. ^[2]

References

1. "Catops basilaris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
2. "Catops basilaris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-31.

• Majka C, Langor D (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ZooKeys 2: 357–402.
• Peck, Stewart B., and Joyce Cook (2002). "Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America". The Canadian Entomologist, vol. 134, no. 6, 723–787.
• Salgado, J. M. (1999). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. New data and description of two new species". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, vol. 75, no. 1, 35–47.

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.