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Species Typhaea stercorea - Hairy Fungus Beetle

Typhaea stercorea Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus) - Typhaea stercorea beetle - Typhaea stercorea Fungus Beetle? - Typhaea stercorea Small orange beetle with clubbed antennae - Typhaea stercorea Small orange beetle with clubbed antennae - Typhaea stercorea 3.5 mm - Typhaea stercorea 3.5 mm - Typhaea stercorea
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 Typhaea
Species stercorea (Hairy Fungus Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus 1758)
stercorea = 'related to dung, manure'
Size
2.2–3.0 mm(1)
Identification

Det. E.G. Riley, 2010
Range
Cosmopolitan (of Palaearctic origin), adventive in NA, widespread - Map (2)(3)
Habitat
occurs both outdoors and in association with various stored products: corn fields (on decaying kernels), warehouses, stores, flour mills, mangers, dairy barns, dwellings, and granaries in stored grain and seeds, tobacco, peanuts, cacao, corn, millet, wheat, apricots, and moldy grape skins; also in nests of swans and moorhens(2)
Season
Apr-Nov (BG data)
Food
mold feeder (associated with poor storage conditions)
Remarks
Secondary pest of stored grain/seeds, tobacco, peanuts, and cacao(1)
See Also
Cryptophilus integer (Heer) - Erotylidae
- adventive, scattered NA records
Det. E. G. Riley, 2011
Internet References
Fact sheet (anon. 2013)(4)