Toramus pulchellus

Toramus pulchellus is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae.[1][2][3][4][5] Yellow-brown to dark colored, it is only 1.3mm to 1.6mm long.[6] It is found in North America.[1]

Toramus pulchellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Erotylidae
Genus: Toramus
Species:
T. pulchellus
Binomial name
Toramus pulchellus
(LeConte, 1863)

References
  1. "Toramus pulchellus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  2. "Toramus pulchellus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. "Toramus pulchellus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  4. "Toramus pulchellus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  5. "Toramus pulchellus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  6. Evans, Arthur (2014). Beetles of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. p. 278. ISBN 9780691133041.

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.
  • Lawrence, J.F.; Vaurie, P. (1983). "Family: Languriidae". A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • Leschen, Richard A.B. (2003). Erotylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) phylogey and review. Fauna of New Zealand. Manaaki Whenua Press. ISBN 0-478-09350-0. ISSN 0111-5383.
  • Lord, Nathan Patrick; Hartley, Christopher S.; Lawrence, John F.; McHugh, Joseph V.; et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (4): 753–763. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
  • Skelley, Paul E.; McHugh, Joseph V. (2002). Arnett Jr., R. Jr.; Thomas, M.; Skelley, P.; Frank, J. (eds.). Family 87. Erotylidae Leach 1815. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 348–355. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.


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