''Catops'' is a genus of small carrion beetles in the family
Leiodidae
Leiodidae is a family of beetles with around 3800 described species found worldwide. Members of this family are commonly called round fungus beetles due to the globular shape of many species, although some are more elongated in shape. They are g ...
. There are about 16 described species in ''Catops''.
Species
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Catops alpinus''
Gyllenhal, 1827
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Catops alsiosus''
(Horn, 1885)
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Catops americanus''
Hatch, 1928
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Catops apterus''
Peck and Cook, 2002
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Catops basilaris''
Say, 1823
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Catops davidsoni''
Salgado, 1999
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Catops egenus''
(Horn, 1880)
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Catops geomysi
''Catops geomysi'' is a species of small carrion beetle in the family Leiodidae
Leiodidae is a family of beetles with around 3800 described species found worldwide. Members of this family are commonly called round fungus beetles due to the gl ...
''
Peck & Skelley, 2001
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Catops gratiosus''
(Blanchard, 1915)
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Catops kirbii''
(Spence, 1813)
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Catops luridipennis''
Mannerheim, 1853
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Catops luteipes''
Thomson, 1884
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Catops mathersi''
Hatch, 1957
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Catops neomeridionalis''
Peck and Cook, 2004
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Catops newtoni''
Peck, 1977
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Catops paramericanus
''Catops paramericanus'' is a species of small carrion beetle in the family Leiodidae
Leiodidae is a family of beetles with around 3800 described species found worldwide. Members of this family are commonly called round fungus beetles due to ...
''
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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