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Genus Fornax

Fornax bicolor - Fornax floridana Fornax knulli Muona - Fornax melsheimeri Fornax bicolor Fornax bicolor Fornax knulli - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Eucnemidae (False Click Beetles)
Subfamily Macraulacinae
Tribe Macraulacini
Genus Fornax
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our fauna reviewed in (1)
Explanation of Names
Fornax Laporte 1835
Numbers
9 spp. in our area, >300 total(1)
Size
our spp. 6-13 mm(1)
Identification
can be confused with Diphytaxis, Onichodon, and Serrifornax; can be separated based on grooved elytral epipleura and narrowed lateral antennal grooves.
Key to spp. in (1)
Range
worldwide, mostly tropical; in our area, eastern half of the US (one sp. ranging into QC), most diverse in the southeast(1)
Habitat
mostly forested areas
Season
iv-ix(1)
Food
Larvae in various types of deciduous logs
Works Cited
1.A review of the Nearctic species of Fornax Laporte (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae: Macraulacinae: Macraulacini)...
Otto R.L. 2020. Insecta Mundi 0818: 1–26.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 31 March, 2009 - 10:10pm
Additional contributions by Robert Otto, v belov
Last updated 30 November, 2020 - 4:30pm

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