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Genus Sphindocis

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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 Tenebrionoidea
Family Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Sphindociinae
Genus Sphindocis
Numbers
A single species in our area(1)
Identification
11-segm. antenna with no sensory tufts on the club and the crenulate pronotal margin are diagnostic of this sole member of a separate subfamily, Sphindociinae(1)
Range
California(1)
Habitat
Fruiting bodies of polypores (Trametes, Poria)(1)
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.