Cytilus

Cytilus is a genus of pill beetles in the family Byrrhidae. There are about eight described species in Cytilus.^[1][2][3]

Cytilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Byrrhidae
Tribe:	Byrrhini
Genus:	Cytilus Erichson, 1847

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Cytilus:

• Cytilus alternatus (Say, 1825)
• Cytilus auricomus (Duftschmid, 1825)
• Cytilus kanoi Takizawa & Nakane, 1977
• Cytilus longulus Casey
• Cytilus mimicus Casey, 1912
• Cytilus nigrans Casey
• Cytilus sericeus (Forster, 1771)
• Cytilus tartarinus Scudder, 1900

References

1. "Cytilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Cytilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Cytilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Lawrence, John F.; Slipinski, Adam; Jäger, Olaf; Pütz, Andreas (2013). "The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species". Zootaxa. 3745 (3): 301–29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3745.3.1. PMID 25113351.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.

External links

• Media related to Cytilus at Wikimedia Commons