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Meloidae  Gyllenhal, 1810
Taxonomic Serial No.: 114387

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): blister beetles [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial    
  Latest Record Review: 2007    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumArthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode  
       SubphylumHexapoda  -- hexapods  
          ClassInsecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             SubclassPterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects  
                InfraclassNeoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
                   OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- beetles, besouro, coléoptères  
                      SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                         InfraorderCucujiformia Lameere, 1938  
                            SuperfamilyTenebrionoidea Latreille, 1802  
                               FamilyMeloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 -- blister beetles  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Subfamily Eleticinae Wellman, 1910  
                                  Subfamily Meloinae Gyllenhal, 1810  
                                  Subfamily Nemognathinae Laporte, 1840  
                                  Subfamily Tetraonycinae Bøving and Craighead, 1931  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meloidae, blister beetles [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bologna, Marco A., and John D. Pinto  
  Publication Date: 2001   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogenetic studies of Meloidae (Coleoptera), with emphasis on the evolution of phoresy   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Entomology, vol. 26, no. 1   
  Page(s): 33-72   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0307-6970   
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  Reference for: Meloidae, blister beetles   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meloidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pinto, J. D., and M. A. Bologna  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Natural History, vol. 33, no. 4   
  Page(s): 569-620   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-2933   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meloidae, blister beetles   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pinto, John D., and Marco A. Bologna  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal 1810   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea   
  Page(s): 522-529   
  Publisher: CRC Press LLC   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8493-0954-9   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meloidae, blister beetles   
       

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Wed Feb 10 2010 01:21:40 MST