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Genus Microrhagus

another eucnemid? - Microrhagus subsinuatus Microrhagus pectinatus LeConte, 1866 - Microrhagus pectinatus - male Microrhagus subsinuatus Eucnemidae, dorsal - Microrhagus pectinatus - male False Click Beetle - Microrhagus pectinatus - male Click? - Microrhagus lecontei Click? - Microrhagus lecontei Click? - Microrhagus lecontei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Eucnemidae (False Click Beetles)
Subfamily Melasinae
Tribe Dirhagini
Genus Microrhagus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dirhagus Latreille 1834; Dirrhagus (misspelling)
Explanation of Names
Microrhagus Dejean 1833
Numbers
9 spp. in our area, >100 total(1)(2)
Size
2.5-7.0 mm
Identification
best identified by the closely spaced antennal sockets(3)
key to spp. in (1)
Range
much of the world; in our area, mainly eastern (one eastern species have been taken in the Pacific Northwest)
Habitat
larvae in logs of deciduous trees(3)
Season
mid-Jun through Aug
Life Cycle
Unknown.
Works Cited
1.Eucnemid larvae of the Nearctic region. Part V: Fifth instar larval descriptions for eight species of Microrhagus Dejean...
Otto R.L. 2015. Insecta Mundi 0421: 1-46.
2.A new North American species of Microrhagus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae), with a key to the Nearctic species
Otto R.L. 2013. Insecta Mundi 0307: 1-6.
3.A revision of the Nearctic Eucnemidae
Muona J. 2000. Acta Zool. Fenn. 212: 1‒106.
Contributed by Nicolas Gompel on 8 March, 2008 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert Otto, v belov
Last updated 24 February, 2021 - 3:05pm

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