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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

subgenus Librodor

Pleasing Fungus Beetle ? - Glischrochilus fasciatus Black and Cream Fungus Beetle? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Glischrochilus obtusus Nicrophorus sp - Glischrochilus fasciatus Glischrochilus fasciatus? - Glischrochilus fasciatus Glischrochilus fasciatus Cucujoidea – Sap-feeding Beetles - Nitidulidae – Cryptarchinae - Glischrochilus fasciatus Glischrochilus sanguinolentus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptarchinae
Genus Glischrochilus
No Taxon subgenus Librodor
Explanation of Names
Librodor Reitter 1884
Numbers
at least 5 spp. in our area, many elsewhere (esp. in E Asia)
Remarks
some spp. may be involved in the transmission of butternut canker fungus (Halik & Bergdahl 2002) and oak wilt(1)
Works Cited
1.How to identify common nitidulid beetles associated with oak wilt mats in Minnesota
Cervenka V.J., Skalbeck T.C., Kyhl J.F., Blackford D.C., Juzwik J.J., Seybold S.J. 2001. USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN. HT-71: 1-16.