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''Colopterus'' is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family
Nitidulidae The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family (biology), family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antenna (biology), antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They fe ...
. There are about 10 described species in ''Colopterus''.


Species

* '' Colopterus floridanus'' Parry and Howden, 1976 * '' Colopterus gerhardi'' Dodge, 1939 * '' Colopterus maculatus'' (Erichson, 1843) * '' Colopterus morio'' (Erichson, 1843) * '' Colopterus niger'' * '' Colopterus posticus'' (Erichson, 1889) * '' Colopterus semitectus'' (Say, 1825) * '' Colopterus testaceus'' Gillogly, 1969 * '' Colopterus truncatus'' (Randall, 1838) * '' Colopterus unicolor'' (Say, 1825)


References

* Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". ''American Beetles'', vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315. * Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology'', vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.


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


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Colopterus''
Nitidulidae {{nitidulidae-stub