Optioservus browni
Species of beetle
Optioservus browni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Superfamily: | Byrrhoidea |
Family: | Elmidae |
Subfamily: | Elminae |
Tribe: | Elmini |
Genus: | Optioservus |
Species: | O. browni |
Binomial name | |
Optioservus browni White, 1978 |
Optioservus browni is a species in the family Elmidae ("riffle beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga ("water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles").[1][2] The species is known generally as the "Brown's optioservus riffle beetle".[3] It is found in North America.[2]
References
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 ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Brown, Harley P. (1983). "A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico, Family: Elmidae". United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook, no. 529-50, x + 23 + i.
- Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- White, D. S. (1978). "A revision of the Nearctic Optioservus (Coleoptera: Elmidae), with descriptions of new species". Systematic Entomology, vol. 3, no. 1, 59–74.
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