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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Epiphloeinae

Subfamily Epiphloeinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Clerid - Madoniella dislocata Which beetle, please? - Madoniella dislocata Madoniella - Madoniella dislocata Clerid - Pennasolis merkeli Madoniela dislocata - Madoniella dislocata Cleridae, dorsal - Madoniella dislocata Clerid Beetle - Pyticeroides laticornis Cleridae - Pennasolis merkeli
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Subfamily Epiphloeinae
Explanation of Names
Epiphloeinae Kuwert 1893
Numbers
5 described & several undescribed* spp. in 4 genera in our area (271 spp. in 25 genera total)(1)(2)(3)
(*)Jacques Rifkind, pers.comm. to =v=, 2.iv.2013
Size
worldwide, 2.8–12.0 mm(1)
Range
New World (Canada to Argentina)(1)
Habitat
most commonly collected from bark during outbreaks of bark beetles(1)
Food
lignicolous predators in the larval and adult stage(1)
Remarks
The body color of many species blends in with the color of bark on which they capture their prey. Other species are brightly colored and involved in Batesian or Müllerian mimicry complexes.(1)
Works Cited
1.Classification, natural history, phylogeny, and subfamily composition of the Cleridae and generic content of the subfamilies
Opitz W. 2010. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collections Frey 32: 31–128.
2.Classification, natural history, and evolution of Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VII. The genera Hapsidopteris...
Opitz W. 2008. Zootaxa 1754: 1–40.
3.Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part XI. taxonomy and catalogue. etc.
Opitz, W. 2014. Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 99(2): 5-94.
Contributed by v belov on 9 April, 2010 - 4:38am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 10:46pm

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