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Colopterus truncatus
Species
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 (NS-YT to FL-CA & S. America)
(
2
)
(
3
)
Habitat
on fungus, also probably under bark
(
3
)
Remarks
May be a complex of several species.
(
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
,
v belov
Last updated 13 February, 2015 - 11:40am