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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Orophiini » Octotemnus » undescribed sp. adventitious to North America (Octotemnus undescribed sp. adventitious to North America)
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Octotemnus - male
Copyright © 2009 Mike Quinn

Octotemnus - Male
se. of College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA
April 19, 2009
Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

This is an adventive species to North America.

"This thing here in Texas is surely an exotic; it's even a pest if you like polypore. The first examples I came across from Texas are from Travis County (Austin area, central Texas) dated 2003. I have since found it at other places and it is always abnormally abundant and it thoroughly and unnaturally- pulverizes its host fungus. At a "virgin timber" location in the deep forest of eastern Texas, it is now very abundant on every piece of common white polypore I find. 20 years ago, when I last surveyed beetles at this site, this species was not present. (E. G. Riley, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2009)
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 27 April, 2009 - 6:54am
Last updated 31 October, 2021 - 9:21pm

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