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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Histeroidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Saprininae » Hypocaccini » Hypocaccus

Genus Hypocaccus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Histerid 1 dorsal - Hypocaccus lucidulus

California Coastal Dune Beetle - Hypocaccus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Histeroidea

Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)

Subfamily Saprininae

Tribe Hypocaccini

Genus Hypocaccus

Explanation of Names

Hypocaccus Thomson 1867

Greek 'living under scat'

Numbers

37 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(1), ~70 spp. total(2)

Hypocaccus (Hypocaccus): (30 spp. + 4 undescribed)(1)

H. acorni Bousquet & Laplante ―w.Canada & Colorado

H. aeneipunctatus (Horn)

H. bigemmeus (LeConte)

H. bigener (LeConte)

H. brasiliensis (Paykull)

H. consobrinus (Fall)

H. densus (Casey)

H. divulsus (Casey) ―TX

H. estriatus (LeConte)

H. ferrugineus (Marseul)

H. fitchi (Marseul)

H. fraternus (Say)

H. iris (Fall)

H. jaquesi (Hatch)

H. kincaidi McGrath & Hatch ―coastal, sw.BC to Coos Bay, OR

H. lucidulus LeConte

H. lustrans (Casey) ―so.FL

H. mancus (Say)

H. omissus (Casey) ― AB―MB―IA

H. patruelis (LeConte)

H. propensus

H. rubidulus (Casey)

H. seminitens (LeConte)

H. servilis (Casey)

H. sparsus (Casey)

H. strigithorax Hinton

.........others?

Hypocaccus (Baeckmanniolus): (3 spp.)(1)

H. dimidiatipennis (LeConte)

H. gaudens LeConte

H. serrulatus (LeConte)

Identification

Key to 11 spp. occurring in Canada: (3) (Baeckmanniolus treated as a separate genus)

Range

worldwide but barely represented in S.America & Australia(2)

Habitat

mostly sand bars/beaches(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Saprininae: Phylogeny, biogeography and a new classification of the subfamily (Coleoptera_ Histeridae) Lackner T., Zhang Y.M., Kindler C., Motyka M., Balke M. 2023. Syst. Entomol. 1―24.

3.	The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 24. Coleoptera Histeridae Bousquet Y., Laplante S. 2006. NRC Research press, Ottawa. 485 pp.

Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 6 November, 2007 - 6:12pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 10 August, 2023 - 6:56pm

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