Toramus pulchellus

Toramus pulchellus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Erotylidae
Genus:	Toramus
Species:	T. pulchellus
Binomial name
Toramus pulchellus (LeConte, 1863)

Toramus pulchellus is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} Yellow-brown to dark colored, it is only 1.3mm to 1.6mm long. ^[6] It is found in North America. ^[1]

References

1. "Toramus pulchellus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
2. "Toramus pulchellus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
3. "Toramus pulchellus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
4. "Toramus pulchellus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
5. "Toramus pulchellus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
6. Evans, Arthur (2014). Beetles of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. p. 278. ISBN   9780691133041.

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. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Vaurie, P. (1983). "Family: Languriidae". A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture.
• 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   0665100558.
• Leschen, Richard A.B. (2003). Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) phylogey and review. Fauna of New Zealand. Manaaki Whenua Press. ISBN   0-478-09350-0. ISSN   0111-5383.
• Lord, Nathan Patrick; Hartley, Christopher S.; Lawrence, John F.; McHugh, Joseph V.; et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (4): 753–763. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. ISSN   0307-6970.
• Skelley, Paul E.; McHugh, Joseph V. (2002). Arnett Jr., R. Jr.; Thomas, M.; Skelley, P.; Frank, J. (eds.). Family 87. Erotylidae Leach 1815. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 348–355. ISBN   0-8493-0954-9.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• "NCBI Taxonomy Browser" . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
• Media related to Toramus pulchellus at Wikimedia Commons