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Species Cerylon unicolor

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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 Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Bothriderid group)
Family Cerylonidae (Minute Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Ceryloninae
Genus Cerylon
Species unicolor (Cerylon unicolor)
Explanation of Names
Cerylon unicolor (Zieger 1845)
Range
across Canada, e. US (south to n.FL, west to 100°W) and Pacific Coast to CA(1)
Habitat
under bark, in rotten logs, leaf mold, at sap, in various fungi(1)
Remarks
the most commonly collected sp. in the east and along the Pacific Coast(1)
Works Cited
1.The North American Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Clavicornia)
John F. Lawrence and Karl Stephan. 1975. Cambridge Entomological Club.
Contributed by tom murray on 16 May, 2007 - 10:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 6 January, 2019 - 9:41pm

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