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Genus Pteryngium

Pteryngium crenatum (Fab.) - Pteryngium crenatum - female

Cucujoidea - Cryptophagidae - Pteryngium crenatum

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 (Cucujid series)

Family Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Cryptophaginae

Tribe Cryptophagini

Genus Pteryngium

Explanation of Names

Pteryngium Reitter 1887

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (across so. Canada and n. US)(2)

Habitat

bracket fungi in forests(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada Majka C.G., Langor D. 2010. ZooKeys 35: 13-35.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 14 May, 2007 - 5:14pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 3 January, 2015 - 11:00pm

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