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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Epuraeinae » Epuraea » Subgenus Epuraea (Epuraea Subgenus Epuraea) » Epuraea aestiva

Species Epuraea aestiva

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Epuraea sp.? - Epuraea aestiva Haptoncus cf. californicus ? - Epuraea aestiva Epuraea aestiva Nitidulidae? Epuraea? - Epuraea aestiva Epuraea species? - Epuraea aestiva Epuraea species? - Epuraea aestiva Nitidulid found on snowpack - Epuraea aestiva Onion Valley-J.2024.04 - Epuraea aestiva
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 Epuraea)
Species aestiva (Epuraea aestiva)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epuraea depressa (Illiger 1798)
Explanation of Names
Epuraea aestiva (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
2.5‒3.8 mm(1)
Identification
The only one with those oversize apical antennomeres in males; habits peculiar, too: larvae in bumble bee nests, adults frequent flowers. No other Epuraea lives like that in NA, and perhaps just one or two spp. elsewhere
Range
holarctic, widespread in NA (NF‒AK to FL‒TX‒CA)(2)(3)
Habitat
larvae in bumble bee nests, adults frequent flowers
Works Cited
1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
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.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 Will Chatfield-Taylor on 7 November, 2008 - 10:35pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, tom murray, v belov
Last updated 18 September, 2024 - 11:46am

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