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Genus Neopyrochroa

Fire-colored Beetle? - Neopyrochroa femoralis Neopyrochroa flabellata? - Neopyrochroa flabellata - male Pyrochroidae - Neopyrochroa femoralis - female Beetle with large rakes for antennae - Neopyrochroa femoralis Beetle Larva - Neopyrochroa flabellata beetle063018a - Neopyrochroa flabellata Larva Apr 18 - Neopyrochroa flabellata Dendroides? - Neopyrochroa flabellata
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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