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Species Fabogethes nigrescens - Black Pollen Beetle

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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 Meligethinae (Pollen Beetles)
Genus Fabogethes
Species nigrescens (Black Pollen Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Meligethes nigrescens
Explanation of Names
Fabogethes nigrescens (Stephens 1830)
Range
Holarctic: transcontinental in n. NA south to VA-KY-OR; w. Europe to Siberia(1)(BG data); adventive in NA, according to other sources(2)
Habitat
open habitats(1)
Remarks
North America's most commonly encountered meligethine species. Yes, there are a few other species, but it seems like 9 times out of 10 they are nigrescens. --Andy Cline
Works Cited
1.Nitidulidae and Kateretidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada 1: New records from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island...
Majka C.G., Cline A.R. 2006. The Canadian Entomologist 138: 314-332.
2.Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Audisio P., Cline A.R., De Biase A., et al. 2009. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341–504.
Contributed by v belov on 1 May, 2009 - 9:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 June, 2013 - 8:07pm

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