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Genus Fabogethes

Sap-feeding Beetle? - Fabogethes nigrescens

Fabogethes nigrescens? - Fabogethes nigrescens

Fabogethes nigrescens - Black Pollen Beetle - Fabogethes nigrescens

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 Meligethinae (Pollen Beetles)

Genus Fabogethes

Explanation of Names

Fabogethes Audisio & Cline 2009

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area, 9 spp. total(1)

Range

native to the Palaearctic (widespread in Eurasia)(1)

Food

larvae develop in flowers of Fabaceae(1)

Works Cited

1.	Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Audisio P., Cline A.R., De Biase A., et al. 2009. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341–504.

Contributed by v belov on 3 April, 2012 - 11:28pm

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