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Genus Amphicrossus

Amphicrossus ciliatus (Olivier) - Amphicrossus ciliatus At blacklight. Nitidulidae? - Amphicrossus niger Nitidulid - Amphicrossus ciliatus Nitidulidae ? - Amphicrossus ciliatus Amphicrossus? - Amphicrossus AZ19 J29 - Amphicrossus niger Amphicrossus? - Amphicrossus liebecki Nitidulidae - Amphicrossus ciliatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Amphicrossinae
Genus Amphicrossus
Explanation of Names
Amphicrossus Erichson 1843
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), ~30 total(2)
Range
found on several continents; in NA, QC-ON-FL-AZ(1)(3): A. ciliatus e. NA, A. liebecki & A. niger so. AZ
Habitat
Usually found feeding at sap
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 revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.