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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae) » Pedilinae » Pedilus

Genus Pedilus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

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 Pyrochroidae (Fire-Colored Beetles)

Subfamily Pedilinae

Genus Pedilus

Explanation of Names

Pedilus Fischer von Waldheim 1822

Numbers

30 spp. in our area(1), ~50 total(2)

Identification

Key to species in (3); males often have modified elytral tips/declivity

Range

in NA, mostly w.US, also the northeast(1); eastern spp.: P. canaliculatus, cyanipennis, elegans, impressus, labiatus, lugubris, terminalis; the ranges of P. joanae and P. lewisi are continental.

Habitat

on flowers/vegetation in damp areas(4)

Season

adults active in spring(4)

Remarks

Not yet in guide:

P. alticolus Fall, 1915 [CA]

P. crotchii (Horn, 1874) [CA/OR]

P. cyanipennis Bland, 1864 [Appalachian]

P. dentatus Abdullah, 1964 [CA]

P. fenderi, granti, johnsonorum Young, manuscript names [CA all]

P. longilobus Fall, 1915 [CA/NV-WA]

P. monticolus (Horn, 1874) [CA/NV]

P. oregonus Fall, 1915 [BC-CA]

P. picipennis Fall, 1915 [CA/WA-ID/UT]

P. rusticus Abdullah, 1964 [CA]

P. serratus Fall, 1915 [CA]

P. vittatus (Horn, 1871) [CA-ID/UT]

See Also

cantharids in the Silinae may look similar

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.	BioLib.cz

3.	Bionomics, phylogeny and systematics of the North American species of Pedilus Fischer (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae). Young, D.K. 1981. Thesis Univ. Michigan State. 1.

4.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by tom murray on 13 May, 2005 - 5:54am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Ted Kropiewnicki, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 29 September, 2024 - 7:37am

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