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''Holopsis'' is a genus of minute hooded beetles in the family
Corylophidae Corylophidae is a family of minute hooded beetles, sometimes called minute fungus beetles, in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. There are about 18 genera and at least 120 described species in Corylophidae. They feed on microfungi such as molds, a ...
. There are about 9 described species in ''Holopsis''.


Species

* '' Holopsis carolinae'' (Casey, 1900) * '' Holopsis convexa'' (Casey, 1900) * '' Holopsis flavoocellus'' (Blatchley, 1927) * '' Holopsis impunctatus'' (Casey, 1900) * '' Holopsis marginicollis'' (LeConte, 1852) * '' Holopsis sphaericula'' (Casey, 1900) * '' Holopsis subtropicus'' (Casey, 1900) * '' Holopsis suturalis'' (Sharp in Blackburn and Sharp, 1885) * '' Holopsis virginica'' (Casey, 1900)


References

* Bowestead, Stanley, and Richard A. B. Leschen / Arnett, R.H. Jr., et al., eds. (2002). "Family 94. Corylophidae LeConte 1852". ''American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea'', 390–394. * Slipinski, Adam, Wioletta Tomaszewska, and John F. Lawrence (2009). "Phylogeny and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) with descriptions of new genera and larvae". ''Systematic Entomology, vol. 34, no. 3'', 409–433.


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 . * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Holopsis''
Corylophidae Coccinelloidea genera {{Beetle-stub