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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (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
Red-spotted beetle - Bitoma crenata red and black beetle - Bitoma crenata Tiny Rough Beetle - Bitoma quadricollis small beetle - Bitoma quadriguttata Bitoma quadriguttata (Say) - Bitoma quadriguttata Unknown - Bitoma crenata Beetle, ventral left metatarsus - Bitoma gracilis Bitoma
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
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)
Size
2.5-3.5 mm
Identification
key to species in(4)
Range
in our area, more diverse towards the south; 8 spp. are eastern (brevipes, carinata, crenata, discolor, granulata, pinicola, quadricollis, quadriguttata), 6 spp., western(2)
Habitat
mostly under bark (sometimes in great 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 19 January, 2017 - 4:15pm

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