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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Cucujid series » Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles (Passandridae) » Taphroscelidia » Taphroscelidia linearis

Species Taphroscelidia linearis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Taphroscelidia linearis (LeConte) - Taphroscelidia linearis

Taphroscelidia linearis (LeConte) - Taphroscelidia linearis - male

Taphroscelidia? - Taphroscelidia linearis

Taphroscelidia linearis from Rockwall, Texas - Taphroscelidia linearis

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 (Cucujid series)

Family Passandridae (Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles)

Genus Taphroscelidia

Species linearis (Taphroscelidia linearis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Taphroscelidia linearis (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Catogenus linearis LeConte 1863

Size

4.4-7.1 mm(1)

Identification

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

Range

se. US (TX-FL-SC, MO) to C. Amer. / W. Indies - Map (2)(3), concentration of records from Dallas to RGV

Season

mostly: Mar-Nov (3)

Life Cycle

larvae ectoparasitic on bark beetles (4)

Remarks

comes to lights(1)

Print References

Burckhardt D., Slipinski S.A. (1991) A review of the Passandridae of the world (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea). III. Genera Anisocerus, Aulonosoma, Passandrella, Passandrina, Scalidiopsis and Taphroscelidia. Revue suisse Zoologie 98: 453-497.

LeConte, J.L. (1863) New species of North American Coleoptera part I. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6: 1–168.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

2.	A contribution to the inventory of Coleoptera of Missouri: new records from Benton County. Shockley, F.W. and A.R. Cline. 2004. Journal of the Kansas Entomological 77(3): 280–284.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 16 September, 2008 - 3:46pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2024 - 1:13pm

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