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Family Bothrideridae - Dry Bark Beetles

Representative Images

Bothrideres geminatus (Say) - Bothrideres geminatus Dry bark beetle 10.03.21 - Bothrideres cryptus Bothrideres sp. 1 - Bothrideres Monotomid? - Bothrideres geminatus Silvanidae? - Bothrideres cryptus Bothrides found under sycamore bark - Bothrideres geminatus 9058719 Bothrideridae DRY BARK BEETLE - Deretaphrus oregonensis Antibothrus morimotoi

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

15 spp. in 6 genera of 2 tribes in our area(3)(4), 27 genera total(2)

Size

1.5‒13 mm(3)

Identification

Key to Nearctic genera in (4)

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.
4.Antibothrus morimotoi Sasaji, an Old World cocoon-forming beetle (Coleoptera: Bothrideridae) newly established in North America
McElrath T.C., Androw R.A., McHugh J.V. 2016. Zootaxa 4154(3): 323–330.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 6 December, 2007 - 6:00pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 September, 2025 - 6:39pm

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