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Species Prostomis americanus

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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 Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Prostomidae (Jugular-horned Beetles)
Genus Prostomis
Species americanus (Prostomis americanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly (e.g., in(1)) treated as synonymous with the European Prostomis mandibularis (Fabricius 1801)
Explanation of Names
Prostomis americanus Crotch 1874
Size
4.8-6.2 mm(2)
Identification
immature stages described in Schunger et al. (2003)
Range
w. NA (BC-n.CA)(1)
Habitat
dead logs, within a characteristic clay-like material between layers of the decaying wood fibers(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest
Hatch, M. 1953. University of Washington publications in biology, Volume 16. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington.