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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 » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Erotylid series » Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Erotylidae) » Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Erotylinae) » Dacnini » Dacne » subgenus Dacne (Dacne subgenus Dacne) » Dacne quadrimaculata

Species Dacne quadrimaculata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Pleasing Fungus Beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata Pleasing Fungus Beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata - male Tritoma sp? - Dacne quadrimaculata Tritoma sp? - Dacne quadrimaculata Pleasing Fungus Beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata Dacne quadrimaculata fungus beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata Erotylidae - Dacne quadrimaculata
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 Cucujoidea (Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles)
No Taxon (Erotylid series)
Family Erotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Erotylinae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)
Tribe Dacnini
Genus Dacne
No Taxon (subgenus Dacne)
Species quadrimaculata (Dacne quadrimaculata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dacne quadrimaculata (Say)
Orig. Comb: Ips quadrimaculata Say 1835
Size
2.5-3.5 mm (BG data)
Range
e. NA (TX-NC-NS-MB) (1)(2); the only ne. species
Season
May-Jun (BG data)
Food
Larvae feed in a variety of hard and soft basidiomycete bracket fungi in the genera Clavicorona, Ganoderma, Hypsizygus, Lentinus, Piptoporus, Pleurotus, Pluteus, Polyporus, and Stereum (Skelley et al. 1991).
Print References
Skelley, P.E., Goodrich, M.A., & Leschen, R.A.B. 1991. Fungal host records for the Erotylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of America north of Mexico. Entomological News, 102: 57–72.
Works Cited
1.The Erotylidae and Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada...
C.G. Majka. 2007. Zootaxa 1546: 39–50.
2.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
Contributed by Guy A. Hanley on 8 September, 2008 - 2:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2016 - 7:15pm

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