Xestipyge

Xestipyge is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 9 described species in Xestipyge.[1][2]

Xestipyge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Hydrophiloidea
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Dendrophilinae
Tribe:	Paromalini
Genus:	Xestipyge

Species

• Xestipyge conjunctum (Say, 1825)
• Xestipyge currax (Marseul, 1870)
• Xestipyge garbigliettii (Marseul, 1867)
• Xestipyge geminatum (J. E. LeConte, 1860)
• Xestipyge multistriatum (Lewis, 1888)
• Xestipyge ornatum (Reitter in Leder, 1881)
• Xestipyge puncticulatum Desbordes, 1919
• Xestipyge radulum (Marseul, 1862)
• Xestipyge simplex Vienna, 1993

References

1. "Xestipyge Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
2. "Xestipyge Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.

• Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.

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.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.