Spilodiscus

Spilodiscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Hydrophiloidea
Family:	Histeridae
Subfamily:	Histerinae
Tribe:	Histerini
Genus:	Spilodiscus

Spilodiscus is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are about 9 described species in Spilodiscus.[1][2]

Species

• Spilodiscus arcuatus (Say, 1825)
• Spilodiscus biplagiatus (J. E. LeConte, 1845)
• Spilodiscus flohri (Lewis, 1898)
• Spilodiscus floridanus Ross, 1940
• Spilodiscus gloveri (Horn, 1870)
• Spilodiscus instratus (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Spilodiscus sellatus (J. L. LeConte, 1857)
• Spilodiscus skelleyi Caterino and Kovarik, 2001
• Spilodiscus ulkei (Horn, 1870)

References

1. "Spilodiscus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Spilodiscus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

• Caterino, Michael S. (1998). "A phylogenetic revision of Spilodiscus Lewis (Coleoptera: Histeridae)". Journal of Natural History, vol. 32, no. 8, 1129–1168.
• Mazur, Slawomir (1997). "A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea)". Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement), 373.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Spilodiscus
• 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 ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.