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Genus Rhagonycha

Cantharid in oak-hickory forest - Rhagonycha

Common Red Soldier Beetle? - Rhagonycha fulva

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)

Subfamily Cantharinae

Tribe Cantharini

Genus Rhagonycha

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

our species formerly treated in Cantharis, like most all members of this tribe

Explanation of Names

Rhagonycha Eschscholtz 1830

Greek rhag- 'broken' + onyx 'claw'

Numbers

~50 spp. in our area(1) (several unnamed)

Range

Holarctic genus; most of NA (more diverse in e. US)(1)

Food

predaceous on other insects; also reported to take nectar(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.

Contributed by tom murray on 2 November, 2005 - 8:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 15 January, 2015 - 6:41pm

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