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Family Callirhipidae - Callirhipid Cedar Beetles

Callirhipidae, Callirhipid Cedar Beetle, antennae - Zenoa picea

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Byrrhoidea

Family Callirhipidae (Callirhipid Cedar Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated in Rhipiceridae; also related to basal Elateroidea, like Artematopodidae and Brachypsectridae

Explanation of Names

Callirhipidae Emden 1924

Numbers

a single species in our area; ~150 spp. in 9 genera worldwide(1)(2)

Size

9-23 mm

Range

warmer parts of the world, all continents(3); in our area, e. US (NJ-FL to NE-TX)(4)

Habitat

Larvae live in rotten (esp. white-rotted) wood(1)

Remarks

Adults probably very short-lived(1)

See Also

Internet References

Family overview(3)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

3.	Lawrence J.F., et al. (2000-2005) Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification...

4.	Distribution records for Zenoa picea (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) (Coleoptera: Callirhipidae) from the United States Freese E.L. 2013. The Great Lakes Entomologist 46: 120-132.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 21 February, 2007 - 5:31am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 12 January, 2015 - 11:17pm

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