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Pityophagus
Genus
Pityophagus
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
Cryptarchinae
Genus
Pityophagus
Explanation of Names
Pityophagus
Shuckard 1839
Numbers
3 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, several in Eurasia
Range
holarctic (widespread in Eurasia)
(
2
)
?+; in NA, BC-CA-AZ & PA-DC
(
1
)
Food
larvae probably feed on bark beetles (known to do so in the Old World)
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.
Atlas of beetles of Russia
Contributed by
v belov
on 14 May, 2009 - 2:39pm
Last updated 11 February, 2015 - 6:09pm