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Species Amphicrossus ciliatus

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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
Species ciliatus (Amphicrossus ciliatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Amphicrossus ciliatus (Olivier)
Orig. Comb: Nitidula ciliatus Olivier 1811
Size
3.5-4.5 mm(1)
Identification
Range
e. NA (QC-FL to ON-IA-TX) to Panama, W. Indies(2)(3)
Habitat
usually found on sap during the spring and on flowers of Eupatorium and related plants in the fall(4)
Season
mostly May-July and later (BG data)
Remarks
common at lights
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.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.
3. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
4.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 June, 2006 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 April, 2019 - 1:06pm

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