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Ditylus
Genus
Ditylus
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Tenebrionoidea
Family
Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Subfamily
Oedemerinae
Tribe
Ditylini
Genus
Ditylus
Explanation of Names
Ditylus
Fischer
1817
Numbers
3 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, 8 total
Identification
key to spp. in
(
2
)
Range
mostly holarctic (esp. E. Asia)
(
3
)
; in NA, 2 western spp. (AK-CA) + one eastern (ON-NY-MN)
(
1
)
Habitat
larvae in old wet conifer logs, adults seen over swampy grounds running and under wet logs, also on flowers
(
1
)
Season
adults active May-Aug
(
1
)
Life Cycle
larval stage may take up to 3 yrs.; adults overwinter in pupal cells
(
1
)
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.
A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257-391.
3.
Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.
Contributed by
Boris Büche
on 20 June, 2007 - 6:22am
Additional contributions by
cotinis
,
v belov
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 10:03am