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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Amphotis

Amphotis schwarzi Ulke - Amphotis schwarzi Beetle - Amphotis schwarzi Amphotis schwarzi ? - Amphotis schwarzi Sap-feeding Beetle - Amphotis schwarzi Amphotis schwarzi ? - Amphotis schwarzi Unknown beetle - Amphotis schwarzi Unknown beetle - Amphotis schwarzi Nitidulini - Amphotis
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 Nitidulinae
Tribe Nitidulini
No Taxon (Soronia complex)
Genus Amphotis
Explanation of Names
Amphotis Erichson 1843
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)
Size
our spp. 5.0-7.5 mm(2)
Identification
A. ulkei is larger (6.0-7.5 mm) and more oval than A. schwarzi(2)
Range
e. US, & AB - Map (GBIF), holarctic
Habitat
with ants in spring; on decaying fungi in fall(2)
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.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.