Catops Apterus

''Catops'' is a genus of small carrion beetles in the family Leiodidae. There are about 16 described species in ''Catops''.

Species

* '' Catops alpinus'' Gyllenhal, 1827
* '' Catops alsiosus'' (Horn, 1885)
* '' Catops americanus'' Hatch, 1928
* '' Catops apterus'' Peck and Cook, 2002
* '' Catops basilaris'' Say, 1823
* ''Catops davidsoni'' Salgado, 1999
* '' Catops egenus'' (Horn, 1880)
* '' Catops geomysi'' Peck & Skelley, 2001
* '' Catops gratiosus'' (Blanchard, 1915)
* '' Catops kirbii'' (Spence, 1813)
* '' Catops luridipennis'' Mannerheim, 1853
* '' Catops luteipes'' Thomson, 1884
* '' Catops mathersi'' Hatch, 1957
* '' Catops neomeridionalis'' Peck and Cook, 2004
* '' Catops newtoni'' Peck, 1977
* '' Catops paramericanus'' Peck & Cook, 2002
* '' Catops simplex'' Say, 1825

References

* Majka C, Langor D (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ''ZooKeys'' 2: 357–402.
* Peck, Stewart B. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, eds. (2001). "Family 19. Leiodidae Fleming, 1821". ''American Beetles'', vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, 250–258.
* Peck, Stewart B., and Joyce Cook (2002). "Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America". ''The Canadian Entomologist'', vol. 134, no. 6, 723–787.

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 .
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* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.

External links

NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Catops''

Leiodidae

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