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Genus Mycetophagus

Mycetophagus flexuosus? - Mycetophagus flexuosus unknown beetle - Mycetophagus quadriguttatus Mycetophagus punctatus Mycetophagus flexuosus Winged insect to black light - Mycetophagus punctatus Orange-harnessed beetle - Mycetophagus flexuosus Orange-splotched beetle - Mycetophagus flexuosus Brown Beetle with orange-yellow spotting - Mycetophagus pluriguttatus
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 Mycetophagidae (Hairy Fungus Beetles)
Genus Mycetophagus
Explanation of Names
Mycetophagus Hellwig in Schneider 1792
Numbers
15 spp. in 5 subgenera in our area, >50 total(1)(2)
Range
worldwide except Australasia, most diverse in temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere(2)
Habitat
wooded areas, on decaying fruiting bodies of mushrooms and fleshy polypores, particularly those that have begun to dehydrate(1)
See Also
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.Review of the genera of Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with descriptions of new genera and a world generic key
Lawrence J.F., Escalona H.E., Leschen R.A.B., Ślipiński A. 2014. Zootaxa 3826: 195–229.