Sonoma (beetle)

Sonoma
Sonoma squamishorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Supertribe: Faronitae
Genus: Sonoma
Casey, 1886

Sonoma is a genus of North American rove beetles in the subfamily Pselaphinae. At least 57 species are known—the majority from the Pacific Slope, ranging from Southern California to Alaska—with other species occurring in the Appalachians and the Eastern United States.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Ferro, Michael L. (2016). "Fourteen new species of Sonoma Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with a key to species from western North America". Insecta Mundi (472): 1–57.
  2. ^ Ferro, Michael L.; Carlton, Christopher E. (2010). "Fifteen new species of Sonoma Casey from the eastern United States and a description of the male of Sonoma tolulae (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)". Insecta Mundi (134): 1–37.
  3. ^ Marsh, Gordon A.; Schuster, Robert O. (1962). "A Revision of the Genus Sonoma Casey (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 16 (2): 33–56. JSTOR 3998950.