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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Hairy Fungus Beetles (Mycetophagidae) » Litargus » Stored Grain Fungus Beetle (Litargus balteatus)

Species Litargus balteatus - Stored Grain Fungus Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Tiny Underbark Beetle - Litargus balteatus tiny spotted Hairy Fungus Beetle - Litargus balteatus Fungus Beetle ? - Litargus balteatus Litargus balteatus LeConte - Litargus balteatus tiny beetle, Chrysomelidae? - Litargus balteatus Belden-J.2021.38 - Litargus balteatus Mycetophagidae, Stored Grain Fungus Beetle - Litargus balteatus Litargus balteatus? - Litargus balteatus
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 Litargus
Species balteatus (Stored Grain Fungus Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Litargus balteatus LeConte 1856
balteatus = 'girdled'
Size
<2.3 mm(1)
Range
e. NA to CA (native range)(1)(2); now cosmopolitan(3)
Habitat
on fungus, decaying plant material, maize, dried grapes, stored products(3); reported occasionally from grain elevators, mills, warehouses, and dwellings(1)
Remarks
unusually variable(2)
Works Cited
1.Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: An identification guide
Bousquet Y. 1990. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Publication 1837.
2.Revision of nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1975. Col. Bull. 29: 93-108.
3.Coleoptera families other than Cerambycidae, Curculionidae sensu lato, Chrysomelidae sensu lato and Coccinelidae -- Chapter 8.5
Denux O., Zagatti P. 2010. BioRisk 4: 315–406.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 22 August, 2006 - 7:31pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 July, 2015 - 11:01am

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