Tribe Sogdini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited

little brown beetle - Macrohydnobius matthewsii - female

little brown beetle leg & mandibles - Macrohydnobius matthewsii - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Leiodinae

Tribe Sogdini

Explanation of Names

Sogdini Lopatin 1961

Numbers

22 spp. in 7 genera in our area, ~80 spp. in 14 genera total(1)(2)

not yet in the guide, with NA distribution: Sogda Lopatin 1961 [across the north + the Rockies] • Stereus Wollaston 1857 [AB CO]

Size

1.7‒6.5 mm(1)

Range

north temperate and south temperate parts of the world; in NA, markedly boreomontane (most diverse in the n. half of the continent, along the Rockies, and in the Northwest), with just one se. sp. in so. Appalachians(1)

Habitat

mostly cool temperate and moist forested or open environments; some prefer well-drained sandy soils (easier to dig for fungi)(1)

Season

active during various seasons, often in midsummer, but some spp. are known mostly from late fall/winter months; Macrohydnobius are often taken from snow surface in montane regions(1)

Food

where known, adults and larvae feed on subterranean fungi(1)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the Sogdini of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leiodinae)... Peck S.B., Cook J. 2009. Zootaxa 2102: 1–74.

2.	Catalogue of Life

Contributed by v belov on 28 February, 2010 - 4:40pm
Last updated 8 December, 2023 - 10:10pm

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