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Genus Hypocaccus

Histerid 1 dorsal - Hypocaccus lucidulus California Coastal Dune Beetle - Hypocaccus Clown Beetle? - Hypocaccus lucidulus Histerid - Hypocaccus estriatus Histerid - Hypocaccus bigener Histerid - Hypocaccus bigener Histeridae? - Hypocaccus bigemmeus Histeridae? - Hypocaccus bigemmeus
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. 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. rubidulus (Casey)
H. seminitens (LeConte)
H. servilis (Casey)
H. sparsus (Casey)
H. strigithorax Hinton
.........others?
Hypocaccus (Baeckmanniolus): (3 spp.)(1)
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.