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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Bothriderid group » Minute Bark Beetles (Cerylonidae) » Ceryloninae » Cerylon

Genus Cerylon

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Minute Bark Beetle - Cerylon unicolor Cerylonid - Cerylon unicolor Cerylon unicolor Cerylon castaneum Beetle - Cerylon unicolor Cerylonidae, Cerylon unicolor - Cerylon unicolor Suborder Polyphaga? - Cerylon unicolor Coccinelloidea – Minute Bark Beetles - Cerylonidae – Ceryloninae - Cerylon - Cerylon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Bothriderid group)
Family Cerylonidae (Minute Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Ceryloninae
Genus Cerylon
Explanation of Names
Cerylon Latreille 1802
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), dozens worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide except Australia but scarcely represented in the New World; in NA, C. unicolor & C. castaneum transcontinental in the north and widespread in the east (the former also along the Pacific), 3 more spp. with limited southwestern ranges (C. distans AZ, C. californicum CA, C. conditum AZ-NM)(2)
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.The North American Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Clavicornia)
John F. Lawrence and Karl Stephan. 1975. Cambridge Entomological Club.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 April, 2006 - 5:09pm
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 10 February, 2015 - 6:21pm

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