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''Smicrips'' is a genus of palmetto beetles in the family
Smicripidae Smicripidae is a family of beetles, in the superfamily Cucujoidea. The common name for this family is palmetto beetles. The family only has one extant genus, '' Smicrips,'' with six extant species native to tropical and subtropical regions of th ...
. There are at least 2 described species in ''Smicrips''.


Species

* '' Smicrips palmicola'' LeConte, 1878 * '' Smicrips texana'' (Casey, 1916)


References

* Price, Michele B. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 78. Smicripidae Horn 1879". ''American Beetles'', vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 316–318.


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, ''Smicrips''
Cucujoidea genera {{Cucujoidea-stub