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For the United States & Canada

Species Sandalus niger - Cedar Beetle

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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 Elateriformia)
Superfamily Dascilloidea
Family Rhipiceridae (Cicada Parasite Beetles)
Genus Sandalus
Species niger (Cedar Beetle)
Other Common Names
Cicada Parasite Beetle (1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sandalus niger Knoch 1801
Identification
variable:
Range
e US, s. ON (BG data) (not FL (2))
Print References
Elzinga R.J. (1977) Observations on Sandalus niger Knoch (Coleoptera: Sandalidae) with a description of the triungulin larva. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 50: 324-328. (Full text)
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 distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.