Pytho

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: Pythidae
Genus: Pytho
Species: P. abieticola – P. depressus – P. jezoensis – P. kolwensis – P. nivalis
Name

Pytho Latreille, 1796
References

Atlas of pythid beetles (Pythidae) of Russia

Pytho is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae. There are about nine described species in Pytho.[1][2][3][4]
Species

Pytho abieticola Sahlberg, 1875
Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
Pytho depressus Linnaeus, 1767
Pytho kolwensis Sahlberg, 1833
Pytho niger Kirby, 1837
Pytho nivalis Lewis, 1888
Pytho planus Olivier, 1795
Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925
Pytho strictus LeConte, 1866

References

"Pytho Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
"Pytho Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
"Pytho Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

"Browse Pytho". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

Further reading

Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Le Conte, 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.
Pollock, Darren A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 114. Pythidae Solier 1834. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 537–539. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica. Entomological Information Services. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.