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Species Cortinicara gibbosa

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Beetle - Tiny or Immature ? - Cortinicara gibbosa Latridiid - Cortinicara gibbosa Texas Latridiid - Cortinicara gibbosa Texas Latridiid - Cortinicara gibbosa Cryptophagidae? - Cortinicara gibbosa Cortinicara gibbosa - male Coccinelloidea - Latridiidae - Corticariinae - Cortinicara gibbosa Small beetle on flowers - Cortinicara gibbosa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Latridiidae (Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Corticariinae
Genus Cortinicara
Species gibbosa (Cortinicara gibbosa)

Explanation of Names

Cortinicara gibbosa (Herbst 1793)

Size

1.1–1.7 mm(1)

Range

native to Palaearctic, adventive in the New World; in our area, across so. Canada south to NJ-WV-MI & CA(1)

Habitat

wide variety of environments: marshlands, pastures, coastal fields/barrens, shores/beaches, heaths, pine barrens, sand dunes, meadows, sphagnum bogs, wet swales, grasslands, and forests; more abundant in open, often damp, habitats(1)

Remarks

the most abundant latridiid in the Atlantic Provinces(1)
earliest NA record: before 1899 (NH, MI, WV, BC-CA)(1)

Works Cited

1.Latridiidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: New records, keys to identification, new synonyms, distribution, and zoogeography
Majka C.G., Langor D., Rücker W.H. 2009. The Canadian Entomologist 141: 317‒370.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 27 September, 2008 - 11:16am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 13 December, 2014 - 12:41pm

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