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Genus Mycetaea

Rotting tree dweller 22 (beetle) - Mycetaea subterranea

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Coccinellid group)

Family Mycetaeidae

Genus Mycetaea

Explanation of Names

Mycetaea Stephens 1829

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area, 4-5 spp. total(1)

Range

1 sp. cosmopolitan (spread via agency of man), others in S. Africa & Australia?(1)

Works Cited

1.	An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae) Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.

Contributed by v belov on 5 July, 2009 - 1:38pm
Last updated 13 August, 2015 - 12:15pm

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