Carpophilus melanopterus

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Carpophilus melanopterus
"Yucca Beetle" (Carpophilus melanopterus) (18345669573).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Nitidulidae
Genus: Carpophilus
Species:
C. melanopterus
Binomial name
Carpophilus melanopterus
Erichson, 1843

Carpophilus melanopterus is a species of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae.[1][2] It is found in Central America and North America.[2]

Yucca Nit - Carpophilus melanopterus, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

References[]

  1. ^ "Carpophilus melanopterus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. ^ a b "Carpophilus melanopterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  • Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.
  • Price, Michele B., and Daniel K. Young (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 69–84.

Further reading[]

  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Carpophilus melanopterus
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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