Acanthogethes Explained

Acanthogethes is a genus of pollen beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are about five described species in Acanthogethes.

Species

These five species belong to the genus Acanthogethes:

• Acanthogethes brevis Sturm, 1845
• Acanthogethes fuscus (Olivier, 1790)
• Acanthogethes hercules (Audisio, 1986)
• Acanthogethes lamii (Rosenhauer, 1856)
• Acanthogethes reyi (Guillebeau, 1885)

Further reading

• Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). 2009. Audisio . P.. Cline . A.R.. de Biase . A.. Antonini . G.. Mancini . E.. Trizzino . M.. Costantini . L.. Strika . S.. Lamanna . F.. Cerretti . P.. 4. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 49. 2. 341–504. 0374-1036.
• An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae). 2006. Price . Michele B.. Young . Daniel K.. Insecta Mundi. 20. 1–2. 69–84. 0749-6737.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. 2007. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-8788757675.