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Family Nitidulidae - Sap-feeding Beetles

4-spotted Sap Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Glischrochilus sanguinolentus Darker than the cactus visitors - Nitops floralis - male Nitidulid - possible Omosita? - Omosita nearctica Stelidota octomaculata Carpophilus melanopterus - Caplothorax melanopterus Beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus Cucujoidea – Sap-feeding beetles – Nitidulidae – Carpophilinae – Carpophilus antiquus - Carpophilus antiquus
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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
a classification of world genera here (Kireitschuk 2012); Cybocephalidae and Prometopinae restored(1)
Explanation of Names
Nitidulidae Latreille 1802
Numbers
~170 spp. in 30 genera in our area(2), ~4500 spp. in 350 genera worldwide(3); 73 spp. in WI(4); 70 in IN(5); 33 in a part of VA(6)
Overview of our fauna
Family NITIDULIDAE
Subfamily CRYPTARCHINAE
Subfamily EPURAEINAE
Subfamily NITIDULINAE
Size
0.9‒15 mm
Identification
photo gallery in (7)
Range
worldwide and across NA
Food
fungi, plant matter, sap, decaying fruit; many associated with flowers, carrion (Nitidula, Omosita...), bee nests (Aethina tumida, E. aestiva), ant nests (e.g. Amphotis); some may damage stored products (some Carpophilinae). Larvae of some nit genera prey on bark beetle larvae
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