Pytho depressus

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Pythidae
Genera: Anaplopus – Ischyomius – Priognathus – Pytho – Sphalma – †Pythoceropsis – ?Osphyoplesius – ?Trimitomerus

Name edit

Pythidae Solier, 1834

References edit

  • I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2008 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark
    ISBN 87-88757-84-6, p. 414
  • Pollock, D.A. 2002: 114. PYTHIDAE Solier 1834. Pp. 537-539 in: Arnett, R.H., jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.): American beetles. Volume 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. limited preview
  • Pollock, D.A. 2010: 11.23. Pythidae Solier, 1834. Pp. 708-715 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
  • Young, D.K. 1976: The systematic position of Sphalma quadricollis Horn (Coleoptera: Salpingidae: Pythini) as clarified by discovery of its larva. Coleopterists bulletin, 30: 227–232. JSTOR
  • Young, D.K. 1991: Pythidae (Tenebrionoidea). Pp. 539-541 in: Lawrence, J.F. (coordinator) Order Coleoptera, in: Stehr, F.W. (ed.) Immature insects, 2 . Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, USA.

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Vernacular names edit

Deutsch: Drachenkäfer
English: Pythid beetles / Dead log bark beetles
suomi: Kolvakuoriaiset
русский: Трухляки