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Meloidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
<i>Insecta Suecica descripta. Classis I. Coleoptera sive Eleutherata. Pars II</i>, p. 481

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Meloidae

Name

Synonyms
Melioidae
Mylabridae
Tetraonychidae
Tetraonycidae
Homonyms
Meloidae
Common names
Blister Beetle in English
Blister Beetle in English
Blister Beetles in English
Blister Beetles in English
Oil Beetles in English
Oil Beetles in English
Oliebiller in Danish
blister beetle in English
blister beetles in English
blister beetles in English
oil beetles in English
oliekevers, blaartrekkenden, blaarkevers in Dutch
toukohärät in Finnish
oljebaggar in Swedish
plasterbiller in Norwegian Bokmål
plasterbiller in Nynorsk, Norwegian

Bibliographic References

  1. "Blackwelder, R. E. (1945). Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central América, the West Indies, and South América, pt. 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. i iv, 343-550. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.185.3" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7876824
  2. "Bologna, M. A. & J. D. Pinto. (1997). Case 2924. Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 and Nemognathinae Castelnau, 1840 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed precedence over Horiidae Latreille, 1802. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 54: 226-230. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12446474" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12446474
  3. "Bologna, M. A. & Pinto, J. D. (2001). Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy. Systematic Entomology, 26: 33-72. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00132.x" https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00132.x
  4. "Borchmann, F. (1917). Pars 69. Meloidae, Cephaloidae. En: E. Schenkling (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Junk, Berlin. 208 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10430459" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10430521
  5. "Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence J, Lyal C, Newton A, Reid C, Schmitt M, Slipinski A, Smith A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1 972. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807 " https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807
  6. "Denier, P. (1935). Coleopterorum Américanorum familiae meloidarum. Enumeratio synonymica. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 7: 139-176. https://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/36820" https://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/36820
  7. "Gyllenhal, L. (1810). Insecta Suecica descripta. Classis I. Coleoptera sive Eleutherata. Pars II, 481p. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9339922" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9339922
  8. "Latreille, P. A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Vol. 3. Paris, F. Dufart, An X-XIII. 468 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24885057" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24885057
  9. "Pinto, J. D. & Bologna, M. A. (1999). The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis. Journal of Natural History, 33: 569-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/002229399300254" https://doi.org/10.1080/002229399300254
  10. "Wellman, F. C. (1910). On the classification of the Lyttidae (Meloidae s. Cantharidae auctt.). Entomological News, 21: 211-222. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2592703" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2592534
  11. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  12. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  13. Bologna, Marco A., and John D. Pinto, 2001: Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy. Systematic Entomology, vol. 26, no. 1. 33-72.
  14. Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 88: 1-972. 10.3897/zookeys.88.807
  15. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  16. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1918 Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 and Nemognatfflnae Castelnau, 1840 (Insecta, Coleoptera): given precedence over Horiidae Latreille, 1802.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56, 89-91 (1999)
  17. Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006.
  18. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  19. Pinto, J. D., and M. A. Bologna, 1999: The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis. Journal of Natural History, vol. 33, no. 4. 569-620.
  20. Pinto, John D., and Marco A. Bologna, 2002: Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810. American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 522-529.
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