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Genus Glischrochilus

Spotted Beetle - Glischrochilus vittatus Four-spotted Sap Beetle larva - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus Spotted beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Unknown - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Coleoptera - Glischrochilus vittatus Nitidulidae - Glischrochilus vittatus
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 Cryptarchinae
Genus Glischrochilus
Other Common Names
Red-spotted Sap Beetles
Explanation of Names
Glischrochilus Reitter 1873
Greek glischros 'sticky' + cheilos 'lip'(1)
Numbers
9 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(2)(3)
Range
worldwide, most diverse in SE Asia; in NA, widespread (most spp. transcontinental)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.
3.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.