Pytho (beetle)

Pytho
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Pythidae
Genus:	Pytho Latreille, 1796

Pytho is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae. There are about nine described species in Pytho. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

• Pytho abieticola Sahlberg, 1875
• Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
• Pytho depressus Linnaeus, 1767
• Pytho kolwensis Sahlberg, 1833
• Pytho niger Kirby, 1837
• Pytho nivalis Lewis, 1888
• Pytho planus Olivier, 1795
• Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925
• Pytho strictus LeConte, 1866

References

1. "Pytho Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
2. "Pytho Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
3. "Pytho Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
4. "Browse Pytho". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• 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.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN   978-1402062421.
• Le Conte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.{{cite book}}: ; |journal= ignored (help)
• Pollock, Darren A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 114. Pythidae Solier 1834. CRC Press. pp. 537–539. ISBN   0-8493-0954-9.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. Entomological Information Services: 41–820.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.