Pedilus

Pedilus is a genus of fire-colored beetles in the family Pyrochroidae. There are at least 20 described species in Pedilus.

Pedilus
Pedilus terminalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Pyrochroidae
Subfamily:	Pedilinae
Genus:	Pedilus Fischer von Waldheim, 1820

Pedilus terminalis

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Pedilus:

• Pedilus abnormis (Horn, 1874) ^{g b}
• Pedilus bardii (Horn, 1874) ^b
• Pedilus canaliculatus (LeConte, 1866) ^{g b}
• Pedilus cavatus Fall, 1915 ^b
• Pedilus cyanipennis Bland, 1864 ^g
• Pedilus elegans (Hentz, 1830) ^{g b}
• Pedilus flabellatus (Horn, 1883) ^{g b}
• Pedilus flexiventris Fall, 1915 ^b
• Pedilus fuscus Fisher von Waldheim, 1822 ^g
• Pedilus impressus (Say, 1826) ^g
• Pedilus inconspicuus (Horn, 1874) ^{g b}
• Pedilus joanae ^b (manuscript name)
• Pedilus labiatus (Say, 1827) ^b
• Pedilus laevicollis Reitter, 1901 ^g
• Pedilus lewisii (Horn, 1871) ^b
• Pedilus longilobus Fall, 1915 ^g
• Pedilus lugubris Say ^{i c g b}
• Pedilus oregonus Fall, 1915 ^g
• Pedilus parvicollis Fall, 1919 ^b
• Pedilus punctulatus LeConte, 1851 ^{g b}
• Pedilus rubricollis Motschulsky, 1858 ^g
• Pedilus terminalis (Say, 1827) ^{g b}
• Pedilus weberi Reitter, 1901 ^g

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• 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. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
• LeConte, 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.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Pedilus at Wikimedia Commons