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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) » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Epuraeinae » Epuraea » Subgenus Epuraeanella (Epuraea Subgenus Epuraeanella) » Epuraea rufa

Species Epuraea rufa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Works Cited
Nitidulid - Epuraea rufa Sap-feeding beetle 10.06.16 - Epuraea rufa Flared Neck Beetle - Epuraea rufa Looks like a match? #2 - Epuraea rufa Small brown beetle (2) - Epuraea rufa Winged Neck Beetle - Epuraea rufa Epuraea - Epuraea rufa Epuraea - Epuraea rufa
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 (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Epuraeinae
Genus Epuraea
No Taxon (Subgenus Epuraeanella)
Species rufa (Epuraea rufa)
Explanation of Names
Epuraea rufa (Say 1825)
rufa = 'brown-red'
Size
2.9-3.5 mm(1)
Range
ne. NA, except the deep south (NB-ON-MN to GA-KS) - Map (2)(3)(4)
Habitat
beneath leaves, at sap, in fungi(3)
Season
mostly Apr-Jul (4)
Remarks
common at lights
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.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 27 October, 2008 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 1 August, 2022 - 9:52pm

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