Colopterus

Colopterus
Specimen of Colopterus niger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Cillaeinae
Genus:	Colopterus Erichson, 1842

Colopterus is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about 10 described species in Colopterus. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Colopterus floridanus Parry and Howden, 1976
• Colopterus gerhardi Dodge, 1939
• Colopterus maculatus (Erichson, 1843)
• Colopterus morio (Erichson, 1843)
• Colopterus niger
• Colopterus posticus (Erichson, 1889)
• Colopterus semitectus (Say, 1825)
• Colopterus testaceus Gillogly, 1969
• Colopterus truncatus (Randall, 1838)
• Colopterus unicolor (Say, 1825)

References

1. "Colopterus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
2. "Colopterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 January 2018.

• Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315.
• Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN   978-0-8493-0954-0.
• 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, Colopterus