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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Small Carrion Beetles (Cholevinae) » Ptomaphagus

Genus Ptomaphagus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Print 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
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Cholevinae (Small Carrion Beetles)
Genus Ptomaphagus
Explanation of Names
Ptomaphagus Illiger 1798
'corpse eater'
Numbers
55 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area, >130 total(1)
Range
Holarctic, Neotropical, n.Oriental(1)
Habitat
various litter/soil habitats, ant nests, animal burrows; 18 spp. are blind inhabitants on caves in so. US(2)
Print References
Peck S.B. (1973) A systematic revision and the evolutionary biology of the Ptomaphagus (Adelops) beetles of North America (Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Catopinae), with emphasis on cave-inhabiting species. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 145: 29‒162.
Peck S.B., Gnaspini P. (1997) Review of the myrmecophilous Ptomaphagus, subgenus Echinocoleus (new status), of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae; Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini). Can. Entomol. 129: 93‒104.
Works Cited
1.An annotated catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
S.B. Peck & A.F. Newton. 2017. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(2): 211-258.
2.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.
Contributed by Joe, Entomologist (in training) on 8 May, 2007 - 12:06pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 January, 2024 - 1:58am

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