Exomella

Exomella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Byrrhidae
Subfamily:	Byrrhinae
Tribe:	Simplocariini
Genus:	Exomella Casey, 1914

Exomella is a genus of pill beetles in the family Byrrhidae. There are at least 2 described species in Exomella. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Exomella merickeli Johnson, 1985
• Exomella pleuralis (Casey, 1908)

References

1. "Exomella Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Exomella Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

• Johnson, Paul J. (1991). "Taxonomic notes, new records, and a key to the adults of North American Byrrhidae (Coleoptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, vol. 93, no. 2, 322–332.
• Johnson, Paul J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 42. Byrrhidae Latreille 1804". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 113–116.

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.