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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

subgenus Glischrochilus

Spotted Beetle - Glischrochilus vittatus Spotted Beetle - Glischrochilus vittatus Glischrochilus vittatus? - Glischrochilus vittatus Glischrochilus confluentus Small Beetle with Red/Orange Markings - Glischrochilus moratus Coleoptera - Glischrochilus vittatus Glischrochilus confluentus: Maryland in February - Glischrochilus confluentus Glischrochilus - 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
No Taxon subgenus Glischrochilus
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1), about as many in the Palaearctic...
not yet in the guide: G. lecontei (w. NA: BC-OR-AZ to MB-SD-NM)(2)(1)
Range
prob. holarctic; across the north and with coniferous forests southward
Habitat
under bark of conifers, esp. pines
Works Cited
1.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.
2.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.