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Species Colopterus truncatus

Representative Images

Sap-feeding Beetle - Colopterus truncatus Carpophilus sp. - Colopterus truncatus small flower beetle - Colopterus truncatus Beetle - Colopterus truncatus Nit 2 - Colopterus truncatus Colopterus truncatus? - Colopterus truncatus Carpophilus - Colopterus truncatus Colopterus from Junction City - Colopterus truncatus

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 Cillaeinae
Genus Colopterus
Species truncatus (Colopterus truncatus)

Explanation of Names

Colopterus truncatus (Randall 1838)

Size

1.5‒3.2 mm(1)

Range

widespread in the New World (YT‒NS to S.America)(2)(3)

Habitat

on fungus, also probably under bark(3)

Remarks

May be a species complex(4)

Works Cited

1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.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.
3.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
4.A new species of Colopterus from Florida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
R.H. Parry and H.F. Howden. 1975. The Coleopterists Bulletin 29(4) pp. 275-279 .
Contributed by tom murray on 26 August, 2007 - 11:45am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 August, 2025 - 5:00pm

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