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Species Epuraea rufa

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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 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-OK) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5)
Habitat
beneath leaves, at sap, in fungi(2)
Season
mostly Apr-Jul (5)
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.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
3.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
4.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.
5.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 26 May, 2024 - 2:52pm

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