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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae) » Pedilinae » Pedilus

Genus Pedilus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Black beetle from motel pool - Pedilus lugubris 6004367 - Pedilus lugubris Black headed, red and bronze fuzzy beetle. - Pedilus inconspicuus Soldier Beetle? - Pedilus canaliculatus - male Pedilus? - Pedilus 3013624 Pedilus - Pedilus Small Beetle - Pedilus - female beetle 2 - Pedilus
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 Pyrochroidae (Fire-Colored Beetles)
Subfamily Pedilinae
Genus Pedilus
Explanation of Names
Pedilus Fischer von Waldheim 1822
Numbers
30 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
Key to species in 1981 revision (2)
Range
in NA, mostly w. US, also the northeast(1)
eastern species: P. canaliculatus, cyanipennis, elegans, impressus, labiatus, lugubris, terminalis;
the ranges of P. joanae and P. lewisi are rather characterized as continental.
Habitat
on flowers/vegetation in damp areas(3)
Season
adults active in spring(3)
Remarks
males often have modified elytral tips/declivity
See Also
some soldier beetles in the subfam. Silinae may look similar
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.Bionomics, phylogeny and systematics of the North American species of Pedilus Fischer (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae).
Young, D.K. 1981. Thesis Univ. Michigan State. 1.
3.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by tom murray on 13 May, 2005 - 5:54am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Ted Kropiewnicki, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2022 - 5:28am

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