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Species Caplothorax lugubris - Dusky Sap Beetle

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Carpophilinae
Genus Caplothorax
Species lugubris (Dusky Sap Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Carpophilus lugubris Murray 1864
Size
2.8-4.5 mm(1)
Range
so. Canada (ON-BC) to Brazil(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
Contributed by Tim Moyer on 14 April, 2008 - 11:30am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 11 February, 2015 - 6:40pm

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