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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » 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
Sap-feeding Beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata Pleasing Fungus Beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata - male unknown beetle - Dacne quadrimaculata Tritoma sp? - Dacne quadrimaculata Nitidulid - Dacne quadrimaculata Erotylidae, dorsal - Dacne quadrimaculata Nitidulidae? - Dacne quadrimaculata Nitidulidae? - Dacne quadrimaculata
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 (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) - Map (1)(2)(3); 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.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Guy A. Hanley on 8 September, 2008 - 2:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 July, 2022 - 11:34am

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