Berginus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Mycetophagidae
Subfamilia: Bergininae
Genus: Berginus
Species (6): B. bahamicus – B. madagascarensis – B. maindroni – B. nigricolor – B. pumilus – B. tamarisci

Check (2): B. punctatolineatus – B. vitraci
Name

Berginus Erichson, 1846: 405

Type species: tamarisci Dejean

Berginus is a genus of hairy fungus beetles in the family Mycetophagidae. There are at least three described species in Berginus.[1][2][3][4]
Species

These three species belong to the genus Berginus.[2][3][4]

Berginus bahamicus Casey, 1900
Berginus nigricolor Champion, 1913
Berginus pumilus LeConte, 1863

References

"Berginus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Berginus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Berginus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

"Browse Berginus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

Further reading

Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Nikitsky, N.B. (2008). Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Mycetophagidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 51–55. ISBN 9788788757699.
Parsons, Carl T. (1975). "Revision of Nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 29 (2): 93–108. ISSN 0010-065X.
Scott, Hugh (1922). "Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, vol. 7, no. 4. Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae, Scaphidiidae, Phalacridae, Cucujidae (Supplement), Lathridiidae, Mycetophagidae (including Propalticus), Bostrychidae, Lyctidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Ser. 2, Zoology. 18: 195–260. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb00550.x.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
Young, Daniel K. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 96. Mycetophagidae Leach 1815. American Beetles Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 399–400. doi:10.1201/9781420041231.ch6. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.