Nimbus (beetle)

Nimbus is a genus of scarab, stag and bess beetles in the family Aphodiidae. There are about 14 described species in Nimbus.[1]

Nimbus
Nimbus contaminatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Aphodiidae
Genus: Nimbus

Species

  • Nimbus affinis (Panzer, 1823)
  • Nimbus anyerae (Ruiz, 1998)
  • Nimbus cartalinius (Olsoufieff, 1918)
  • Nimbus contaminatus (Herbst, 1783)
  • Nimbus franzinii (Pittino, 1978)
  • Nimbus harpagonis (Reitter, 1890)
  • Nimbus hoberlandti (Tesar, 1945)
  • Nimbus johnsoni (Baraud, 1976)
  • Nimbus libanonensis (Petrovitz, 1958)
  • Nimbus makowskyi (Koshantschikov, 1891)
  • Nimbus marianii (Pittino, 1978)
  • Nimbus obliteratus (Panzer, 1823)
  • Nimbus proximus (Adam, 1994)
  • Nimbus richardi (Veiga, 1984)

References

  1. "Browse Nimbus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-21.

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.
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
  • Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.


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