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Species Colopterus truncatus

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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 Cillaeinae
Genus Colopterus
Species truncatus (Colopterus truncatus)
Explanation of Names
Colopterus truncatus (Randall 1838)
Size
1.5-3.2 mm(1)
Range
widespread in the New World (NS-YT to FL-CA & S. America)(2)(3)
Habitat
on fungus, also probably under bark(3)
Remarks
May be a complex of several species. (4)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
4.A new species of Colopterus from Florida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
R.H. Parry and H.F. Howden. 1975. The Coleopterists Bulletin 29(4) pp. 275-279 .
Contributed by tom murray on 26 August, 2007 - 11:45am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 13 February, 2015 - 11:40am

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