Melittomma sericeum

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Melittomma sericeum
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Lymexylidae
Genus:
Melittomma
Species:
M. sericeum
Binomial name
Melittomma sericeum
(Harris, 1841)

Melittomma sericeum, the chestnut timberworm, is a species of ship-timber beetle in the family Lymexylidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2]

Chestnut Timberworm, Melittomma sericeum, Pryor, OK, USA[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Melittomma sericeum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  2. ^ a b "Melittomma sericeum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  3. ^ "Images and collection data for Melittomma sericeum". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  • Wheeler, Quentin D. (1986). "Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 183, no. 2, 113–210.
  • Young, Daniel K. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 71. Lymexylidae Fleming 1821". American Beetles, volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 261–262.

Further reading[]

  • 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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