Codocera Eschscholtz 1821
........Codocera Eschscholtz 1821: 398.
........Stomphax Fischer von Waldheim 1823: 158. (synonym).

	C. gnatho, head of female.
Codocera gnatho (male). Photos by M.J. Paulsen	Approximate distribution of New World Codocera species.

Distribution: Palearctic; Nearctic: USA (CA, AZ, NM), northern Mexico.

Revision or Synopsis: None.

Composition: 3 species (2 Palearctic, 1 in North America).

Eschscholtz, J. F. 1821. Zusätze und Berichtigungen zu den im VI. Bande der Memoires de l’Acad. de Sc. à St. Petersbourg, von mir beschriebenen Insekten. Magazin der Entomologie 4: 397-402.

Fall, H. F. 1909. A short synopsis of the species of Ochodaeus inhabiting the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 17: 30-38.

Paulsen, M.J. 2007. Nomenclatural changes in the Nearctic Ochodaeinae and description of two new genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae). Insecta Mundi 0021: 1-13. Download.

Keys to Species: None.

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C. gnatho (Fall)