Ischalia

Ischalia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Ischaliidae
Subfamily:	Ischaliinae
Genus:	Ischalia Pascoe, 1860

Ischalia is a genus of broad-hipped flower beetles in the family Ischaliidae as the only genus.

In some schemes they are treated in the subfamily Ischaliinae, in the wider Tenebrionoidea . There are at least 3 described species of Ischalia in the United States. ^{[1] [2]}

Selected Species

• Ischalia barclayi Young, 2011
• Ischalia californica Van Dyke, 1938
• Ischalia costata (LeConte, 1861)
• Ischalia indigacea Pascoe, 1860
• Ischalia vancouverensis Harrington, 1892

References

1. "Ischalia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
2. Lee, Seung-Gyu; Nam, Jong-Woo; Lim, Jongok (2017). "A taxonomic note on the little known Ischaliidae Blair and first record of Ischalia brachyptera Nikitsky in Korea (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 10 (2): 212–215. doi: 10.1016/j.japb.2017.04.009 .

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-0212-1.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.