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Genus Pityophagus

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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 Cryptarchinae
Genus Pityophagus
Explanation of Names
Pityophagus Shuckard 1839
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), several in Eurasia
Range
holarctic (widespread in Eurasia)(2) ?+; in NA, BC-CA-AZ & PA-DC(1)
Food
larvae probably feed on bark beetles (known to do so in the Old World)
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.Atlas of beetles of Russia