Geomysaprinus

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: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Histeroidea

Familia: Histeridae
Subfamilia: Saprininae
Genus: Geomysaprinus
Subgenera (2): G. (Geomysaprinus) – G. (Priscosaprinus)
Name
Geomysaprinus Ross, 1940

Geomysaprinus is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are at least 20 described species in Geomysaprinus.[1][2]
Species

Geomysaprinus audax (Casey, 1893)
Geomysaprinus belioculus (Marseul, 1862)
Geomysaprinus bicirculus (Marseul, 1870)
Geomysaprinus castanipennis (Fall, 1919)
Geomysaprinus cheyennensis (Casey, 1916)
Geomysaprinus copei (Horn, 1873)
Geomysaprinus floridae (Horn, 1873)
Geomysaprinus formicus (Hinton, 1935)
Geomysaprinus goffi Ross, 1940
Geomysaprinus lanei (McGrath and Hatch, 1941)
Geomysaprinus laramiensis (Casey, 1893)
Geomysaprinus moniliatus (Casey, 1916)
Geomysaprinus oblongus (Wenzel, 1944)
Geomysaprinus obscurus (J. L. LeConte, 1851)
Geomysaprinus obsidianus (Casey, 1893)
Geomysaprinus obsoletus (Casey, 1916)
Geomysaprinus paeminosus (J. L. LeConte, 1851)
Geomysaprinus parumpunctatus (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
Geomysaprinus pectoralis (J. L. LeConte, 1851)
Geomysaprinus pinorum (Casey, 1924)
Geomysaprinus posthumus (Marseul, 1855)
Geomysaprinus quaesitus (Lewis, 1888)
Geomysaprinus rugosifrons (Fall, 1919)
Geomysaprinus saulnieri Kovarik and Verity in Kovarik, Verity and Mitchell, 1999
Geomysaprinus subtropicus (Casey, 1924)
Geomysaprinus suffusus (Casey, 1916)
Geomysaprinus tibialis Ross, 1940
Geomysaprinus triangulifer (Marseul, 1855)

References

"Geomysaprinus Genus: Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

"Geomysaprinus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus:, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.

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.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.