Colopterus is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. 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