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Genus Vacusus

pale-foot black anthicid - Vacusus confinis Vacusus vicinus (LaFerté-Sénectère) - Vacusus vicinus Anthicidae? Tiny guy under dried cow dung - Vacusus confinis Antlike Flower Beetle - Vacusus vicinus AZ19 J14 - Vacusus confinis 7320 - Vacusus confinis tiny Vail beetle - Vacusus confinis Vacusus confinis? - Vacusus confinis
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Anthicinae
Genus Vacusus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Vacusus Casey 1895
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(2)
Range
mostly Neotropical; across NA except the northeast(2)
Habitat
V. formicetorum in nests of Formica ants(2); V. vicinus is common at lights in so. US (D.S. Chandler's comment)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Vacusus Casey (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Werner F.G. 1961. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 54: 798-809.
2.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.