Species Trachodes hispidus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Molytinae

Genus Trachodes

Species hispidus (Trachodes hispidus)

Explanation of Names

Trachodes hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)

Size

2.8‒3.6 mm(1)

Range

native to Europe(2), adventive in NA [established in St. Pierre, NF record cannot be confirmed](3)

Habitat

deciduous & mixed forests; larvae in damp logs/stumps of Fagus, Betula, Quercus, Sorbus, adults on rotten logs/stumps, in forest litter/debris and moss(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: St. Pierre 1951(3)

Works Cited

1.	Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet

2.	Coleoptera Poloniae

3.	New records of Curculionoidea from Newfoundland and Labrador, with the first records of Orthochaetes setiger (Beck)... Langor D.W., Anderson R.S., Bouchard P., Langor S.D. 2022. Zookeys 1136: 125–162.

Contributed by v belov on 20 January, 2015 - 11:51am
Last updated 2 January, 2024 - 1:35pm

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