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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Saprininae » Euspilotini » Euspilotus » subgenus Hesperosaprinus (Euspilotus subgenus Hesperosaprinus) » Euspilotus assimilis

Species Euspilotus assimilis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Histerid - Euspilotus assimilis Histerid - Euspilotus assimilis Histerid - Euspilotus assimilis - male Histeridae, ventral - Euspilotus assimilis Beetle - Euspilotus assimilis Histeridae - Euspilotus assimilis Histeridae, perhaps Hesperosaprinus - Euspilotus assimilis Histeridae - Euspilotus assimilis? Clown beetle - Euspilotus assimilis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)
Subfamily Saprininae
Tribe Euspilotini
Genus Euspilotus
No Taxon (subgenus Hesperosaprinus)
Species assimilis (Euspilotus assimilis)
Explanation of Names
Euspilotus assimilis (Paykull 1811)
Size
3.5-5.5 mm(1)
Identification
Differs from other congeners in the presence of a shallow impression in the anterior angles of the pronotum and a marginal sulcus on the pygidium (interrupted at the middle in the male)(1)
Range
eastern North America (ON-MB to FL-TX)(1)
Habitat
Wide variety of habitats (forests, grasslands, urban and agricultural lands); one of the most typical carrion-dwelling histerids in the east. Sometimes in dung(2)
Remarks
One of the commonest eastern histerids(2)
Internet References
Species page (Tishechkin 2007)(2)
Works Cited
1.The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 24. Coleoptera Histeridae
Bousquet Y., Laplante S. 2006. NRC Research press, Ottawa. 485 pp.
2.Coleoptera species pages developed for the GSMNP project
Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 5 April, 2008 - 10:53am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 August, 2016 - 7:41pm

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