Melittomma sericeum

Melittomma sericeum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Lymexylidae
Genus:	Melittomma
Species:	M. sericeum
Binomial name
Melittomma sericeum (Harris, 1841)

Melittomma sericeum, the chestnut timberworm, is a species of ship-timber beetle in the family Lymexylidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in North America. ^[2]

Chestnut Timberworm, Melittomma sericeum, Pryor, OK, USA

References

1. "Melittomma sericeum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
2. "Melittomma sericeum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
3. "Images and collection data for Melittomma sericeum". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 2018-02-03.

• Wheeler, Quentin D. (1986). "Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 183, no. 2, 113–210.
• Young, Daniel K. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 71. Lymexylidae Fleming 1821". American Beetles, volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 261–262.

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.