Biology:Pytho americanus
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Short description: Species of beetle
| Pytho americanus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Pythidae |
| Genus: | Pytho |
| Species: | P. americanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pytho americanus is a species of dead log beetle in the family Pythidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3] This beetle is able to overwinter both as a larva and an adult. It synthesizes glycerol during cold acclimation.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pytho americanus Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=708497. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Pytho americanus". https://www.gbif.org/species/1045043. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Pytho americanus species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/901380. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ Tanaka, Kazuhiro; Ito, Kiyomitsu (2021-06-28). "Winter polyol metabolism of the house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum is essentially the same between adults and nymphs". Acta Arachnologica (Arachnological Society of Japan) 70 (1): 33–34. doi:10.2476/asjaa.70.33. ISSN 0001-5202.
Further reading
- Pollock, Darren A. (1991). "Natural history, classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographic history of Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Heteromera: Pythidae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 123: 3–104. doi:10.4039/entm123154fv. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276043800.
- Pollock, Darren A. (1998). "Nomenclatural Changes in Pythidae and Pyrochroidae (Coleoptera)". The Coleopterists Bulletin 52 (4): 388–390. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289241150.
- Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.
Wikidata ☰ Q1877110 entry
