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Species Priobium sericeum - Silky Anobiid

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Silky Anobiid Beetle - Priobium sericeum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

Family Ptinidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)

Subfamily Anobiinae (Death-watch Beetles)

Tribe Hadrobregmini

Genus Priobium

Species sericeum (Silky Anobiid)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Trypopitys sericeus

Explanation of Names

Priobium sericeum (Say 1825)

Size

3.3–6.2 mm(1)(2)

Identification

Difficult to separate from the other 2 species

Range

e. NA to AZ (NS-FL to MB-AZ) - Map (3)(4)(5); the only native sp. in the east

Habitat

In natural habitats, lives in dead branches of oak, hickory, cherry; indoors, infests flooring and furniture(1)

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

2.	Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin—Coleoptera: Ptinidae Arango, R.A. and D.K. Young. 2012. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory.

3.	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.

4.	A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Anobiidae. White, R.E. 1982. USDA-ARS, Washington, DC. xi + 59 pp.

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Boris Büche on 16 May, 2007 - 6:53am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 31 May, 2023 - 10:10pm

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