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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae) » Cylindrical Bark Beetles (Colydiinae) » Synchitini » Bitoma

Genus Bitoma

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References · Works Cited

Cylindrical bark beetle - Bitoma quadriguttata

Bitoma vittata Schaeffer - Bitoma vittata

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 Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)

Subfamily Colydiinae (Cylindrical Bark Beetles)

Tribe Synchitini

Genus Bitoma

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

in great need of revision(1)

Explanation of Names

Bitoma Herbst 1793

Numbers

14 spp. (incl. 2 adventive) in our area(2), ~30 in the New World(3), >100 worldwide(1)

not yet in the guide: B. brevipes FL · B. discolor FL · B. neglecta AZ

Size

2.5‒3.5 mm

Identification

key to species in Stephan (1989) (4)

Range

in our area, more diverse towards the south; 8 spp. eastern, 6 western(2)

Habitat

mostly under bark (sometimes in numbers), also in injured/dead cacti or agave/yucca plants, in the nest piles of packrats, in flood debris; adults come to lights(2)(1)

Internet References

Genus page(2)

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.	Lord N.P., Nearns E.H., Miller K.B. (2011-2013) Ironclad ID

3.	Colydiine genera (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) of the New World: A key and nomenclatural acts 30 Years in the making. Ivie, M.A., N.P. Lord, I.A. Foley and S.A. Ślipiński. 2016. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70(4): 755–788.

4.	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.

Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2005 - 7:42pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 July, 2024 - 11:45am

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