Pleocomidae (lat.) - a family of insects from the order of beetles , including the only modern genus Pleocoma and about 30 species [1] .
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 Pleocoma beetle | ||||||||||||||||
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| Pleocomidae LeConte, 1861 |
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Description
Found in North America. Body length: males 16.5-29.0 mm; females 19.5–44.5 mm. Antennae 11-segmented. Karyotype 9 + Xyp [1] .
Systematics
The family is sometimes considered as a subfamily among the lamellar ( Geotrupidae , Melolonthinae , as a subfamily Pleocominae ) [1] . Several fossil species from three genera are known [2] .
- † Cretocoma Nikolaev, 2002
- † Cretocoma tologoica Nikolaev, 2002 [3]
- † Proteroscarabaeus Grabau, 1923
- Pleocoma LeConte, 1856
- Pleocoma badia
- Pleocoma behrensi
- Pleocoma bicolor
- Pleocoma blaisdelli
- Pleocoma carinata
- Pleocoma conjungens
- Pleocoma crinita
- Pleocoma dubitalis
- Pleocoma fimbriata
- Pleocoma hirticollis
- Pleocoma hoppingi
- Pleocoma hovorei
- Pleocoma linsleyi
- Pleocoma marquai
- Pleocoma minor
- Pleocoma octopagina
- Pleocoma oregonensis
- Pleocoma puncticollis
- Pleocoma rickseckeri
- Pleocoma rubiginosa
- Pleocoma simi
- Pleocoma sonomae
- Pleocoma staff
- Pleocoma trifoliata
- Pleocoma tularensis
- † Pleocoma dolichophylla
Ecology and habitats
They feed on the roots of oaks and conifers .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 PLEOCOMIDAE ... LeConte, 1861 Rain beetles . Website: “www-museum.unl.edu”: Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. Date of treatment April 6, 2012. Archived June 29, 2012.
- ↑ Frank-Thorsten Krell. Catalog of fossil Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) of the Mesozoic and Tertiary ( PDF ) (link not available) . Natural History Museum . Date of treatment March 7, 2011. Archived July 20, 2011.
- ↑ GV Nikolajev. 2002. To possible assignment of a new genus of lamellicorn beetles from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia to the subfamily Pleocominae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). - Paleontological Journal 36: 279-282
Links
- Bugguide Family Pleocomidae - Rain Beetles