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Genus Laricobius

Small Black Beetle - Laricobius nigrinus

Tooth-necked Fungus Beetle - Laricobius nigrinus

Tiny black beetle in snow - Laricobius nigrinus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Derodontoidea

Family Derodontidae (Tooth-necked Fungus Beetles)

Genus Laricobius

Explanation of Names

Laricobius Rosenhauer 1846

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1), 18 total(2)

Range

holarctic genus, most diverse in e. Asia(2); in our area, ne. & nw. NA (NL-MI-DC; ID-BC-CA)(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.

2.	A world catalogue of the family Derodontidae (Coleoptera) J. Háva. 2006. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75: 29-38.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 27 February, 2006 - 5:23am
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 1 November, 2022 - 2:44pm

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