Nycteus (beetle)
| Nycteus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Eucinetidae |
| Genus: | Nycteus Latreille, 1829 |
Nycteus is a genus of plate-thigh beetles in the family Eucinetidae. There are about 11 described species in Nycteus.[1][2][3][4]
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Nycteus:
- Nycteus bicolor (Reitter, 1887) g
- Nycteus falsus Vit, 1999 i c g b
- Nycteus hopffgarteni (Reitter, 1885) g
- Nycteus infumatus (LeConte, 1853) i c g b
- Nycteus meridionalis Laporte, 1836 g
- Nycteus oertzeni (Reitter, 1887) g
- Nycteus oviformis (LeConte, 1866) i c g b
- Nycteus prospector (Vit, 1985) g
- Nycteus punctulatus (LeConte, 1875) i c g b
- Nycteus testaceus (LeConte, 1866) i c g b
- Nycteus wollastoni Vit, 1999 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- ^ a b "Nycteus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ a b "Browse Nycteus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ a b "Nycteus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ a b "Nycteus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
Further reading
- Vit, Stanislav (1999). "Sur les genres Nycteus Latreille, 1829, et Eucinetus Germar, 1818 (Coleoptera, Eucinetidae)". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 72: 387–394. ISSN 0036-7575.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
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