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Species Euplatypus parallelus

Euplatypus parallelus (Fabricius) - Euplatypus parallelus - male Euplatypus parallelus (Fabricius) - Euplatypus parallelus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Platypodinae (Pinhole Borers)
Genus Euplatypus
Species parallelus (Euplatypus parallelus)
Explanation of Names
Euplatypus parallelus (Fabricius 1801)
Identification
photos of adults
Range
circumtropical; in our area, extreme south (CA TX FL)(1)
Food
polyphagous(2)
See Also
most easily differentiated by the presence (in E. compositus) or absence (in E. parallelus) of a small pair of mycangial pores on the pronotum of both sexes.
Internet References
Species page(3)
Works Cited
1.Bark and Ambrosia Beetles
2.Atlas and checklist of the bark and ambrosia beetles of Texas and Oklahoma (Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae)
Atkinson T.H., Riley E.G. 2013. Insecta Mundi 02920: 1-46.
3.Atkinson T.H. (200_‒2023) Bark and ambrosia beetles of the Americas
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 13 April, 2009 - 6:13pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 2:30pm

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