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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Amphicrossinae » Amphicrossus » Amphicrossus niger

Species Amphicrossus niger

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Amphicrossinae
Genus Amphicrossus
Species niger (Amphicrossus niger)
Explanation of Names
Amphicrossus niger Horn 1879
Size
4.5 mm (Horn 1879)
Range
so. AZ(1)
Habitat
under the loose outer bark of the Mesquite (Horn 1879)
Season
May-Sept (BG data)
Remarks
comes to lights (BG data)
See Also
Aside from the key characters, niger differs from ciliatus [Range: e. US] in being fuscous, unicolorous, lacking the pencil of setae on each elytron, more parallel, the pronotum more emarginate in front, and more finely punctate. (1)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1879. Revision of the Nitidulidae of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 7: 267-336. (pg. 317)
Parsons, C.T. 1943. A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92(3): 121-278. (pg. 244-245)
Internet References
Type of mixtus - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
Contributed by v belov on 30 July, 2009 - 12:00pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 November, 2017 - 2:23pm

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