Stelidota
Appearance
Stelidota | |
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Stelidota geminata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Nitidulidae |
Subfamily: | Nitidulinae |
Tribe: | Nitidulini |
Genus: | Stelidota Erichson, 1843 |
Stelidota is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about 15 described species in Stelidota.[1][2][3]
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Species
[edit]These 15 species belong to the genus Stelidota:
- Stelidota adsuffusa Ford, 1996
- Stelidota alternata Gillogly
- Stelidota championi Sharp, 1890
- Stelidota chontalensis Sharp, 1889
- Stelidota coenosa Erichson, 1843
- Stelidota copiosa Kirejtshuk, 1995
- Stelidota curta Grouvelle, 1905
- Stelidota ferruginea Reitter, 1873
- Stelidota geminata (Say, 1825) (strawberry sap beetle)
- Stelidota multiguttata Reitter, 1877
- Stelidota nigrovaria (Fairmaire, 1849)
- Stelidota octomaculata (Say, 1825)
- Stelidota ruderata Erichson, 1843
- Stelidota strigosa (Gyllenhal, 1808)
- Stelidota thoracica Kirsch, 1873
References
[edit]- ^ "Stelidota Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Stelidota". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Stelidota genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Ford, Everett J. (1996). "The Genus Stelidota Erichson in North America: A New Species from Florida, New Synonymy and Lectotype Designations (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 50 (2): 149–153. JSTOR 4009217.
- Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links
[edit]Media related to Stelidota at Wikimedia Commons