Family Bothrideridae - Dry Bark Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

Lithophorus ornatus Arrow - Lithophorus ornatus

Crunchy-looking beetle with shiny spots - Lithophorus ornatus

Deretaphrus oregonensis Horn - Deretaphrus oregonensis

Bothrides found under sycamore bark - Bothrideres

Bothrideridae? Maybe Bothrideres cryptus? - Bothrideres

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Bothriderid group)

Family Bothrideridae (Dry Bark Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated in Colydiidae; revised in(1)

as defined in(2), only contains members of the Bothriderinae

Explanation of Names

Bothrideridae Erichson 1845

Numbers

14 spp. in 5 genera of 2 tribes in our area(3), 27 genera total(2)

Size

1.5-13 mm(3)

Range

worldwide(3)

Food

some are ectoparasites of larvae & pupae of wood-boring beetles, others feed on fungi or prey upon ambrosia beetle larvae(3)

See Also

Works Cited

1.	The Bothrideridae and Colydiidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Clavicornia and Heteromera) Stephan K.H. 1989. Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry. xii, 65 p.

2.	Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia) Robertson J.A., Ślipiński A., Moulton M., Shockley F.W., Giorgi A., Lord N.P., McKenna D.D., Tomaszewska W., Forrester J. ... 2015. Syst. Entomol. doi: 10.1111/syen.12138.

3.	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.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 6 December, 2007 - 6:00pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 10 August, 2015 - 9:55am

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