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Pyticeroides

Pyticeroides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about nine described species in Pyticeroides.

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Pyticeroides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cleridae
Subfamily: Epiphloeinae
Genus: Pyticeroides
Kuwert, 1894

Pyticeroides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about nine described species in Pyticeroides.123

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Pyticeroides:

  • Pyticeroides decurialis Opitz, 2007
  • Pyticeroides eurides Opitz, 2007
  • Pyticeroides fustis Opitz, 2007
  • Pyticeroides iscus Opitz, 2007
  • Pyticeroides laticornis (Say, 1835) (broad-horned clerid)
  • Pyticeroides manni Chapin, 1927
  • Pyticeroides moraguesi Opitz, 2010
  • Pyticeroides pullis Opitz, 2010
  • Pyticeroides similis Opitz, 2007
References

References

  1. "Pyticeroides Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Pyticeroides". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Opitz, Weston (2007). "Classification, natural history, and evolution of Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera, Cleridae) Part IV. The genera Pyticeroides Kuwert, 1894 and Diapromeces Opitz, 1997". Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 29: 77–166. ISSN 0253-2484.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.