Mycterus

Mycterus
Mycterus curculioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Mycteridae
Genus:	Mycterus Clairville, 1798

Mycterus is a genus of palm and flower beetles in the family Mycteridae. There are about seven described species in Mycterus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

• Mycterus canescens Horn, 1879
• Mycterus concolor LeConte, 1853
• Mycterus curculioides (Fabricius, 1781)
• Mycterus elongata Hopping, 1935
• Mycterus marmoratus Pollock, 1993
• Mycterus quadricollis Horn, 1874
• Mycterus scaber Haldeman, 1843
• Mycterus umbellatarum (Fabricius, 1787)
• Mycterus youngi Pollock 2012 ^[4]

References

1. "Mycterus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
2. "Mycterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
3. "Mycterus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
4. Pollock, Darren A. (2012). "Mycterus Youngi Pollock (Coleoptera: Mycteridae), A New Species from the Great Lakes Region, with a Revised Key to Species of North America". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 66 (1): 23–26. ISSN   0010-065X.

Further reading

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