Pytho (beetle)

Short description: Genus of beetles

Pytho

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Pythidae
Genus:  | Pytho
Latreille, 1796

Pytho is a genus of dead log beetles in the family Pythidae. There are about nine described species in Pytho.[1][2][3][4]

## Species

* Pytho abieticola Sahlberg, 1875
* Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
* Pytho depressus Linnaeus, 1767
* Pytho kolwensis Sahlberg, 1833
* Pytho niger Kirby, 1837
* Pytho nivalis Lewis, 1888
* Pytho planus Olivier, 1795
* Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925
* Pytho strictus LeConte, 1866

## References

1. ↑ "Pytho Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/15846. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
2. ↑ "Pytho Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=708211. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
3. ↑ "Pytho Overview". http://eol.org/pages/103845/overview. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
4. ↑ "Browse Pytho". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/37d545080b7ab9790424f4d6b4fa8be3. Retrieved 2018-02-27.

## Further reading

* 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.
* American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002.
* Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421.
* Le Conte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732.
* Pollock, Darren A. (2002). Family 114. Pythidae Solier 1834. CRC Press. 537–539. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
* "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica (Entomological Information Services) 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820. 1996.
* White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894.

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