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''Trypherus'' is a genus of soldier beetles in the family
Cantharidae The soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. One of the first described species has a color pattern reminiscent of the red coats of early British soldiers, hence the ...
. There are at least 4 described species in ''Trypherus''.


Species

* '' Trypherus blaisdelli'' Fender, 1960 * '' Trypherus frisoni'' Fender, 1960 * '' Trypherus latipennis'' (Germar, 1824) * '' Trypherus pauperculus'' Fender, 1960


References

* Delkeskamp, Kurt (1977). "Cantharidae". ''Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 165, fasc. 1'', 485.


Further reading

* Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. * * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.


External links


NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Trypherus''
Cantharidae {{Beetle-stub