Brassicogethes

Brassicogethes
Brassicogethes aeneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Nitidulidae
Subfamily: Meligethinae
Genus: Brassicogethes
Audisio & Cline, 2009

Brassicogethes is a genus of pollen beetles in the family Nitidulidae.[1][2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Brassicogethes:

  • Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius, 1775) - common pollen beetle
  • Brassicogethes arankae (Audisio & De Biase, 2005)
  • Brassicogethes bithynicus (Audisio, 1988)
  • Brassicogethes carpathicus (Audisio, Jelinek & Stevanovic, 1999)
  • Brassicogethes cleominis (Easton, 1959)
  • Brassicogethes epeirosi (Audisio, Mancini & De Biase, 2006)
  • Brassicogethes erysimicola Audisio & De Biase, 2001
  • Brassicogethes gracilis (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1863)
  • Brassicogethes humerosus (Reitter, 1871)
  • Brassicogethes lunariae (Audisio & De Biase, 1999)
  • Brassicogethes prometheus (Jelínek, 1982) Jelinek, 1982
  • Brassicogethes reitteri (Schilsky, 1894)
  • Brassicogethes simplex (Kraatz, 1858)
  • Brassicogethes simplipes (Easton, 1947)
  • Brassicogethes spornrafti (Audisio, 1977)
  • Brassicogethes squamosus (Jelinek & Marek, 1966)
  • Brassicogethes thalassophilus (Audisio & De Biase, 2005)
  • Brassicogethes viridescens (Fabricius, 1787)
  • BOLD:AAC0575 (Brassicogethes sp.)
  • BOLD:ABZ3786 (Brassicogethes sp.)
  • BOLD:ACF0980 (Brassicogethes sp.)

References

  1. ^ "Brassicogethes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  2. ^ "Brassicogethes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  • Audisio, P., A. R. Cline, A. De Biase, G. Antonini, E. Mancini, M. Trizzino, L. Costantini, et al. (2009). "Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, vol. 49, no. 2, 341–504.

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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