Protheca

Protheca
Protheca hispida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Bostrichoidea
Family:	Ptinidae
Subfamily:	Dorcatominae
Tribe:	Prothecini
Genus:	Protheca LeConte, 1865

Protheca is a genus of beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are at least three described species in Protheca. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Protheca hispida

Species

These three species belong to the genus Protheca: ^{[5] [6]}

• Protheca guadalupensis (Pic, 1909) ^g
• Protheca hispida LeConte, 1865 ^{i c g b}
• Protheca plicatipennis (Pic, 1912) ^g

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[7] g = GBIF, ^[2] b = Bugguide.net ^[3]

References

1. "Protheca Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
2. "Protheca". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
3. "Protheca Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
4. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
5. Löbl, Ivan; Smetana, Aleš (2007). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. doi:10.1163/9789004260894. ISBN   978-87-88757-67-5.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
6. Zahradník, Petr; Háva, Jiří (2014). "Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea". Zootaxa. 3754 (4): 301–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1. PMID   24869695.
7. "Browse Protheca". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-08-31.

Further reading

• Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). "Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)" (PDF). General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209.
• 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. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN   9788392618218.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   978-0665100550.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0395910894.

External links

• Media related to Protheca at Wikimedia Commons