Dascillidae

Dascillidae is a family of soft-bodied plant beetles in the order Coleoptera. There are at least 15 genera and about 80 described species in Dascillidae.[1][2][3][4]

Dascillidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Superfamily: Dascilloidea
Family: Dascillidae
Guérin-Méneville, 1843

ITIS Taxonomic notes:

  • Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship for this family as 'Guérin Méneville, 1843 (1834)'.[2]

Selected Genera

References
  1. "Dascillidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. "Dascillidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. "Dascillidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. "Browse Dascillidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.

Further reading
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
  • Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
  • Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  • Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
  • Donald J. Borror; Roger Tory Peterson; Richard E. White (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.
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