Pytho (beetle)

Pytho is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae. There are about nine described species in Pytho.[1][2][3][4]

Pytho
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Pythidae
Genus: Pytho
Latreille, 1796

Species
  • Pytho abieticola Sahlberg, 1875
  • Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
  • Pytho depressus Linnaeus, 1767
  • Pytho kolwensis Sahlberg, 1833
  • Pytho niger Kirby, 1837
  • Pytho nivalis Lewis, 1888
  • Pytho planus Olivier, 1795
  • Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925
  • Pytho strictus LeConte, 1866

References
  1. "Pytho Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  2. "Pytho Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  3. "Pytho Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  4. "Browse Pytho". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

Further reading
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  • Le Conte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  • Pollock, Darren A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 114. Pythidae Solier 1834. pp. 537–539. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  • Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.


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