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Passalidae

Bess beetles

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Containing group: Scarabaeiformia

Other Names for Passalidae

References

Boucher, S. 2005. Évolution et phylogénie des Coléoptères Passalidae (Scarabaeoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 41(3-4):239-604.

Castillo, M. L. and J. M. Lobo. 2004. A comparison of Passalidae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia) diversity and community structure between primary and secondary tropical forest in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 13(7):1257-1269.

Galindo-Cardona, A. 2003. Bess Beetle (Coleoptera: Passalidae) fauna of Puerto Rico. Coleopterists Bulletin 57(1):105-107.

Lawrence, J. F. and A. F. Newton. 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes and references, and data on family-group names). Pages 779-1006 in Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Pakaluk, J. and Slipinski, S. A., eds. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warsaw.

Reyes-Castillo, P. 1970. Coleoptera: Passalidae; morfologia y division en grandes grupos; generos americanos. Folia Entomologica Mexicana 20-22:1-240.

Schuster, J. C. 1983. The Passalidae of the United States. Coleopterists Bulletin 37:302-305.

Schuster, J. C. 1983. Acoustical signals of passalid beetles: complex repertoires. Florida Entomologist 66:486-496.

Schuster, J. C. 1992. Passalidae: state of larval taxonomy with description of New World species. Florida Entomologist 75:358-369.

Schuster, J. C. 2002. Passalidae Leach 1815. Chapter 25 in American Beetles. Volume 2. R. H. Arnett, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Schuster, J. C. and P. Reyes-Castillo. 1981. New World genera of Passalidae (Coleoptera): a revision of larvae. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 25:79-116.

Schuster, J. C., and L. B. Schuster. 1997. The evolution of social behavior in Passalidae. Pages 260-269 in The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids. J. Choe and B. Crespi, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Vasconcelos da Fonseca, C. R. and P. Reyes-Castillo. 2004. Synopsis on Passalidae family (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of Brazil with description of a new species of Veturius Kaup, 1871. Zootaxa 789: 1–26.

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Scientific Name Odontotaenius disjunctus
Location Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, USA
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Patent Leather Beetle - Odontotaenius disjunctus
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
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