Isoplastus Horn 1880

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., Insecta Mundi 2014 (397), pp. 1-76 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5184089
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5192190
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scientific name	Isoplastus Horn 1880
status

Treatment

Isoplastus Horn 1880 . Type species: Isoplastus fossor Horn , by monotypy.

Distribution. Eastern Nearctic, Mexico, and West Indies.

Biology. Poorly known, probably feeding on soft fungi in moist habitats.

References

Horn, G. H. 1880. Synopsis of the Silphidae of the United States with reference to the genera of other countries. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 8: 219 - 319.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Leiodidae

Isoplastus Horn 1880

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce 2014

2014

Isoplastus

Horn 1880

1880

Isoplastus fossor

Horn 1880

1880

Specimens