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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Derodontoidea » Wounded-Tree Beetles (Nosodendridae) » Nosodendron » Slime Flux Beetle (Nosodendron unicolor)

Species Nosodendron unicolor - Slime Flux Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Derodontoidea
Family Nosodendridae (Wounded-Tree Beetles)
Genus Nosodendron
Species unicolor (Slime Flux Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Nosodendron unicolor Say 1824
Size
5.0-5.7 mm(1)
Range
e US (ON-FL to WI-TX) - Map (2)(3), spotty distribution
Habitat
adults and larvae in actively flowing fluxes slime fluxes or tree wounds, or under bits of wet bark and debris along the margins of flows(4)
Food
Dependent on microorganism-rich fermenting sap flows, which are more frequent and last longer on older trees than on vigorously growing young trees...
Internet References
Coleoptera of Great Smoky Mountains National Park(4)
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Coleoptera species pages developed for the GSMNP project
Contributed by Boris Büche on 3 April, 2007 - 3:33am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 April, 2022 - 5:32pm

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