Psammodiini

Psammodiini is a tribe of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 12 genera and at least 50 described species in Psammodiini.[1][2]

Tesarius caelatus

Psammodiini
Pleurophorus caesus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Aphodiinae
Tribe: Psammodiini
Mulsant, 1842

Genera

References

  1. "Psammodiini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. "Psammodiini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  • Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys, vol. 88, 1–972.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • 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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