Stelidota

Stelidota is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about 15 described species in Stelidota.[1][2][3]

Stelidota geminata

Stelidota
Stelidota geminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Nitidulidae
Subfamily:	Nitidulinae
Tribe:	Nitidulini
Genus:	Stelidota Erichson, 1843

Species

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

1. "Stelidota Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Stelidota". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Stelidota genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• 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

• Media related to Stelidota at Wikimedia Commons