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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Tribalinae » Epierus

Genus Epierus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Teeny-tiny Histerid found with termites - Epierus pulicarius histerid - Epierus histerid - Epierus Histeridae.. - Epierus regularis Epierus pulicarius Erichson 1834 - Epierus pulicarius Epierus regularis (Palisot de Beauvois 1805) - Epierus regularis Another small Histerid - Epierus pulicarius Clown Beetle? - Epierus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)
Subfamily Tribalinae
Genus Epierus
Explanation of Names
Epierus Erichson 1834
Numbers
11 spp. in our area(1), >50 total
Range
worldwide; E. pulicarius widespread in e. NA, other spp. in so./sw. US(1)
Habitat
typically in decaying wood of dead trunks or in tree cavities(1)
Food
adults feed on fungal spores (unlike most histerids, which are predators)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Coleoptera species pages developed for the GSMNP project
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 13 April, 2007 - 7:45pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 September, 2023 - 4:16pm

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