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Species Cartodere constricta - Plaster Beetle

beetle caught in ethanol flower trap - Cartodere constricta

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 Latridiidae (Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles)

Subfamily Latridiinae

Genus Cartodere

No Taxon (subgenus Cartodere)

Species constricta (Plaster Beetle)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orig. comb.: Latridius constrictus Gyllenhal

Explanation of Names

Cartodere constricta (Gyllenhal 1827)

Size

1.2–1.8 mm(1)

Identification

antennal club appears two-segmented; elytral interstriae 3 & 5 indistinctly ridged

Range

cosmopolitan(2); native to Eurasia, adventive in the New World(1); in our area, across so. Canada and the entire US(3)

Habitat

often in stored products, incl. grains & dry fruit, in houses, feed mills, and grain elevators; plant detritus (herbaceous vegetation, straw/hay, compost, garbage)(1)(3)(4)

Remarks

earliest NA record: IL before 1855(1)

Internet References

Fact sheets: McCaffrey & Walker (2012)(5) | anon. (2013)(6) | |

Works Cited

1.	Latridiidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: New records, keys to identification, new synonyms, distribution, and zoogeography Majka C.G., Langor D., Rücker W.H. 2009. The Canadian Entomologist 141: 317‒370.

2.	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.

3.	Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: An identification guide Bousquet Y. 1990. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Publication 1837.

4.	Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.

5.	PaDIL – High quality images and information tools designed for Biosecurity and Biodiversity

6.	Canadian Grain Commission: insect pests of stored grain

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 20 September, 2005 - 7:52pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov, mfdigiro
Last updated 1 November, 2024 - 10:33am

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