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Genus Pallodes

mushroom beetle - Pallodes pallidus Pallodes plateosus? - Pallodes plateosus Fungus beetle?  2 - Pallodes pallidus Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Pallodes pallidus Nitidulidae - Pallodes pallidus RACA-0428 Chrysomelidae - Pallodes plateosus sap-feeding beetle - Pallodes pallidus sap-feeding beetle - Pallodes pallidus
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 Nitidulinae
Tribe Cyllodini
Genus Pallodes
Explanation of Names
Pallodes Erichson 1843
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), ?hundreds total
Size
3-5 mm
Identification
Note large scutellum
distingusing the eastern spp. see (2)
Range
in our area, e NA to AZ (QC-ON-MN to FL-AZ)(1)(3)(4);
P. pallidus is widely eastern,
P. austrinus, se US (MD-FL to IN-OK-TX)(2)(5)
P. plateosus, AZ
Food
mushrooms
Remarks
possible new sp. to the US from se AZ
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.Pallodes austrinus, a new species of Nitidulidae (Nitidulinae) with discussions on Pallodes mycophagy
Leschen R.A.B. 1988. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 96: 452-458.
3.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
4.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.
5.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)