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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Small Carrion Beetles (Cholevinae) » Cholevini » Catoptrichus » Catoptrichus frankenhauseri

Species Catoptrichus frankenhauseri

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Cholevinae (Small Carrion Beetles)
Tribe Cholevini
Genus Catoptrichus
Species frankenhauseri (Catoptrichus frankenhauseri)
Explanation of Names
Catoptrichus frankenhaeuseri (Mannerheim 1852)
Size
5‒8 mm(1)
Range
PNW (AK‒OR‒ID)(2)
Season
Winter months(2)
Food
Carrion(2)
Remarks
"The type specimens were taken on a human cadaver"(1)
Works Cited
1.Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles of North America
Peck, S.B. and J. Cook. 2002. The Canadian Entomologist 134: 723-787.
2.An annotated catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
S.B. Peck & A.F. Newton. 2017. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(2): 211-258.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 17 October, 2007 - 2:06pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Thrasher
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 2:42pm

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