Catops is a genus of small carrion beetles in the family Leiodidae. There are about 16 described species in Catops.
Species Catops alpinus Gyllenhal, 1827 Catops alsiosus (Horn, 1885) Catops americanus Hatch, 1928 Catops apterus Peck and Cook, 2002 Catops basilaris Say, 1823 Catops davidsoni Salgado, 1999 Catops egenus (Horn, 1880) Catops geomysi Peck & Skelley, 2001 Catops gratiosus (Blanchard, 1915) Catops kirbii (Spence, 1813) Catops luridipennis Mannerheim, 1853 Catops luteipes Thomson, 1884 Catops mathersi Hatch, 1957 Catops neomeridionalis Peck and Cook, 2004 Catops newtoni Peck, 1977 Catops paramericanus Peck & Cook, 2002 Catops simplex Say, 1825
References
Majka C, Langor D (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ZooKeys 2: 357–402. Peck, Stewart B. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, eds. (2001). "Family 19. Leiodidae Fleming, 1821". American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, 250–258. Peck, Stewart B., and Joyce Cook (2002). "Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America". The Canadian Entomologist, vol. 134, no. 6, 723–787.
Further reading
Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Catops