Sapintus fulvipes

Sapintus fulvipes is a species of antlike flower beetles in the family Anthicidae.[1][2] It is found in the Caribbean and North America.[2]

Sapintus fulvipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Tenebrionoidea
Family:
Anthicidae
Subfamily:
Anthicinae
Genus:
Sapintus
Species:
S. fulvipes
Binomial name
Sapintus fulvipes
(LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Sapintus colonus Casey, 1895
  • Sapintus rusticus Casey, 1895

Taxonomic note:

  • Chandler (1999) determined that the publication date of LaFerté's Monographie des Anthicus is probably May, 1849.[2]

References
  1. "Sapintus fulvipes Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. "Sapintus fulvipes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  • Chandler, Donald S. (1999). "Publication Dates of Papers on the Anthicidae (Coleoptera) by the Marquis F. T. de LaFerté-Sénectère". Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 125, no. 4, 433–439.
  • LaFerté-Sénectère, M. F. de la (1849). Monographie des Anthicus et Genres Voisins, Coléoptères Hétéromères de la Tribu des Trachélides, xxiv + 340.
  • Werner, F. G. (1962). "A Revision of the Nearctic Species of Sapintus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 55, no. 5, 492–498.

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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