Cytilus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Byrrhoidea

Familia: Byrrhidae
Subfamilia: Byrrhinae
Tribus: Byrrhini
Genus: Cytilus
Species: C. alternatus – C. avunculus – C. kanoi – C. mimicus – C. nigrans – C. pulchellus – C. sericeus – C. tartarinus

In synonymy: C. auricomus – C. varius
Name

Cytilus Erichson, 1847: 489

Type species: Byrrhus varius Fabricius, 1775

References
Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1845–1848. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abtheilung. Coleoptera. Dritter Band. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, iv + [2] + 968 pp., 1 pl. [issued in parts: pp. 1–320: 1845; pp. 321–480: 1846; pp. 481–800: 1847; pp. 800–968: 1848]. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 489]

Cytilus is a genus of pill beetles in the family Byrrhidae. There are about eight described species in Cytilus.[1][2][3]

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Cytilus:

Cytilus alternatus (Say, 1825)
Cytilus auricomus (Duftschmid, 1825)
Cytilus kanoi Takizawa & Nakane, 1977
Cytilus longulus Casey
Cytilus mimicus Casey, 1912
Cytilus nigrans Casey
Cytilus sericeus (Forster, 1771)
Cytilus tartarinus Scudder, 1900

References

"Cytilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Cytilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Cytilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.