Family Boridae - Conifer Bark Beetles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Nice haul of borid larvae - Boros unicolor

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Boridae (Conifer Bark Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Boridae C.G. Thomson 1859

Numbers

2 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), 4 spp. in 3 genera total(2)

Range

holarctic & Australian

Habitat

under bark of conifers(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 11 July, 2005 - 7:50am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 3:15pm

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