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Genus Pedilus

Beetle to ID - Pedilus lugubris - male Soldier Beetle? - Pedilus labiatus Pyrochroidae, Pedilus maybe elegans - Pedilus Pedilus Pedilus terminalis Fire-Colored Beetle - Pedilus Pedilus - male Pedilus - Pedilus lugubris - male
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)
Identification
Key to species in 1981 revision (2)
Range
in NA, mostly w. US, also the northeast(1)
eastern species: P. canaliculatus, cyanipennis, elegans, impressus, labiatus, lugubris, terminalis;
the ranges of P. joanae and P. lewisi are rather characterized as continental.
Habitat
on flowers/vegetation in damp areas(3)
Season
adults active in spring(3)
Remarks
males often have modified elytral tips/declivity
See Also
some soldier beetles in the subfam. 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.Bionomics, phylogeny and systematics of the North American species of Pedilus Fischer (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae).
Young, D.K. 1981. Thesis Univ. Michigan State. 1.
3.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 26 March, 2022 - 5:28am

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