Prionochaeta Horn, 1880: 260

Peck, Stewart B. & Newton, Alfred F., 2017, An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico), The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 211-258 : 222

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-71.2.211
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458117
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/832A9704-D162-7F04-779C-FBECFD8AF99B
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scientific name	Prionochaeta Horn, 1880: 260
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Prionochaeta Horn, 1880: 260 View in CoL . Type species:

Catops opacus Say, 1825 View in CoL (by monotypy).

Distribution. Nearctic, E Palearctic, China (4 species).

P. opaca ( Say, 1825: 184) (Catops) View in CoL ; LeConte 1853: 280; Murray 1856: 395; Horn 1880: 261 ( Prionochaeta View in CoL ); Hatch 1933: 226; Jeannel 1936: 297; Peck and Cook 2002: 730; Majka and Langor 2008: 392. Type specimen lost or destroyed ( Mawdsley 1993). Neotype designation not necessary. Type locality not designated. North American distribution: Canada: MB, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC. USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV. Biology: Peck (1977b). Often in caves in the southeastern USA. Larva: Böving and Craighead (1931).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Leiodidae