Genus Neopyrochroa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited

Podabrus species ? - Neopyrochroa femoralis

Neopyrochroa femoralis? - Neopyrochroa femoralis - male

Neopyrochroa flabellata? - Neopyrochroa flabellata - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Pyrochroidae (Fire-Colored Beetles)

Subfamily Pyrochroinae

Genus Neopyrochroa

Explanation of Names

Neopyrochroa Blair 1914

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1)

Range

2 spp. in e. NA (w to KS-TX) + 2 spp. in CA(1)

Habitat

eastern spp.: Adults are found in woodlands under bark, on vegetation during the day or at lights at night; larvae in fungus-infested decomposing wood, mostly in underside of logs(1)

Season

adults active in spring and summer(2)

Food

larvae primarily fungivorous(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 April, 2005 - 12:44pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 February, 2015 - 10:23am

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