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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Leiodinae » Sogdini » Macrohydnobius

Genus Macrohydnobius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Beetle - Macrohydnobius matthewsii Trogositidae? - Macrohydnobius simulator Macrohydnobius protibial spur - Macrohydnobius simulator Possible Erotylid? - Macrohydnobius Possible Erotylid? - Macrohydnobius Strange beetle - Macrohydnobius Macrohydnobius? - Macrohydnobius matthewsii Macrohydnobius? - Macrohydnobius matthewsii
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
Genus Macrohydnobius
Explanation of Names
Macrohydnobius Peck & Cook 2009
Numbers
6 spp., all in our area(1)
Size
>5 mm; the largest NA leiodines
Identification
large size • sub-basal transverse impression or row of punctures on the pronotum • peculiar habitus • tendency of being active during the coldest season (specimens taken mostly from snow) ...all make this group easily recognizable among Leiodidae(1)
Range
5 spp. in the Northwest and one (M. tibiocalcaris) in e. ON(1)
Habitat
forests, usually mixed; M. matthewsii also on sand dunes(1)
Season
adults are usually much more abundant late in the season and during the cold months (throughout winter), although have been collected in low numbers during most of the year(1)
Food
subterranean fungi
Remarks
collected most commonly on snow or in flight interecept traps (a few at UV light, in pitfall or malaise traps)(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.
Contributed by v belov on 28 February, 2010 - 11:21pm
Last updated 8 December, 2023 - 10:29pm

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