Author | Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. |
Year | 1996 |
Title | Pollen Beetles - Coleoptera: Kateretidae and Nitidulidae: meligethinae. |
ISBN | 0 901546 80 1 |
Series | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
Source | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 6a, 157pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
Illustrations | Line drawings and monochrome photographs and SEM micrographs |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Keys to adults, with (over-)long species accounts due to the inclusion of a vice-county breakdown of published records for each species. |
Examine | Stereo Microscope |
Specimen Preparation | Dead specimens with legs well displayed. Dissection of genitalia necessary for either sex in most species. |
Identification difficulty | Challenging. |
Website url | www.royensoc.co.uk/publications/index.htm |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | KATERETIDAE | a family of pollen or sap beetles | Animalia: Coleoptera |
For identification | Current | Meligethes | a genus of pollen beetles | Animalia: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae |
For identification | Current | Pria dulcamarae | a pollen or sap beetle | Animalia: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae |
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