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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae) » Monotominae » Europini » Hesperobaenus

Genus Hesperobaenus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Another bicolored beetle under bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Another bicolored beetle under bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Another bicolored beetle under bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Monotomid? - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Hickman 2 - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Tiny brown, elongated, setose beetle under oak bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Tiny brown, elongated, setose beetle under oak bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus Hesperobaenus abbreviatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
Family Monotomidae (Minute Clubbed Beetles)
Subfamily Monotominae
Tribe Europini
Genus Hesperobaenus
Explanation of Names
Hesperobaenus LeConte 1861
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), 10 total(2)
Range
New World & Tahiti(2); in our area, most of the US + BC: H. rufipes is widespread in the eastern, and H. abbreviatus, in the western half of the US, while the rest of spp. are southwestern (TX-CA)(1)
Habitat
under bark of dead trees or in yucca/sotol plants(1)
Food
probably fungus(1)
Works Cited
1.Review of the genus Hesperobaenus LeConte (Coleoptera: Monotomidae) of America, north of Mexico
Y. Bousquet. 2002. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 78(3): 197-214.
2.Tree of Life - Monotomidae
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 January, 2009 - 7:40pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2013 - 12:53pm

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