Genus Hesperobaenus

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

Hesperobaenus constricticollis Bousquet - Hesperobaenus constricticollis

Another bicolored beetle under bark - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus

Hesperobaenus - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

Family Monotomidae (Minute Clubbed Beetles)

Subfamily Monotominae

Tribe Europini

Genus Hesperobaenus

Explanation of Names

Hesperobaenus LeConte 1861

Numbers

6 spp. in our area(1), 10 total(2)

Range

New World & Tahiti(2); in our area, most of the US + BC: H. rufipes is widespread in the eastern, and H. abbreviatus, in the western half of the US, while the rest of spp. are southwestern (TX-CA)(1)

Habitat

under bark of dead trees or in yucca/sotol plants(1)

Food

probably fungus(1)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the genus Hesperobaenus LeConte (Coleoptera: Monotomidae) of America, north of Mexico Y. Bousquet. 2002. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 78(3): 197-214.

2.	Tree of Life - Monotomidae

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 January, 2009 - 7:40pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2013 - 12:53pm

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