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

Genus Carpophilus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Which Nitidulid? - Carpophilus antiquus Carpophilus sp. - Carpophilus marginellus Carpophilus hemipterus - Dried-fruit Beetle - Carpophilus hemipterus Nitidulidae - Carpophilus brachypterus Carpophilus pilosellus? - Carpophilus tiny beetle - Carpophilus Small Nitidulidae - Carpophilus Nitidulid? - Carpophilus marginellus
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 Carpophilinae
Genus Carpophilus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The subgeneric classification needs to be improved on a worldwide base. A few subgenera could probably be treated as separate genera, while others are no more that distinct species-groups, or are manifestly polyphiletic.(1)
Explanation of Names
Carpophilus Stephens 1829
'fruit-loving'
Numbers
~35 spp. in our area, ~250 worldwide, arranged into 9 subgenera(2)(3)
Identification
19 spp. imaged in(4)(5); C. fumatus shown here; photos of 29 spp., incl. most of those regularly intercepted around the world, provided in(2)
key covering many cosmopolitan spp.(6)
Range
worldwide and across NA(7), especially diverse in the tropics; several spp. are adventive (spread by commerce with stored products)
Habitat
Often found at sap flows, flowers, decaying fruit, and fungi. Some species are stored product pests.
Food
most spp. are associated with ripe/rotten or dried fruits/vegetables, but also known to attack healthy fruit(2)
Colopterus truncatus and Carpophilus sayi were found to account for 54% of the nitidulids collected from fungal mats in MN (Ambourn et al. 2005)
Remarks
many spp. transmit yeast and bacterial pathogens to healthy fruit and are considered pests of fruit industries(2)
Colopterus truncatus and Carpophilus sayi are considered to be the principal sap beetle vectors of oak wilt during spring in MN (Ambourn et al. 2005).
Print References
Ambourn A.K., Juzwik J., Moon R.D. (2005) Seasonal dispersal of the oak wilt fungus by Colopterus truncatus and Carpophilus sayi in Minnesota. Plant Disease 89: 1067-1076 (Full text)
Appel D.N., Andersen K., Lewis R. (1986) Occurrence of Nitidulid beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Texas oak wilt centers. J. Econ. Entomol. 79: 1276-1279.
Appel D.N., Kurdyla T., Lewis R. (1990) Nitidulids as vectors of the oak wilt fungus and other Ceratocystis spp. in Texas. Eur. J. For. Pathol. 20: 412-417.
Grant V., Connell W.A. (1979) The association between Carpophilus beetles and cactus flowers. Plant Syst. Evol. 133: 99–102 (Full text)
Works Cited
1.de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.
2.Carpophilus of New Zealand with notes on Australian species
Leschen R., Marris J. 2005. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0405/153. 40 pp.
3.Four new species of Carpophilus (Ecnomorphus) Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) from the New World
Powell G.A. 2020. Col. Bull. 74:175-180.
4.Collison C., MacGown J. (2010) Nitidulidae in the Mississippi Entomological Museum
5.Price M.B., Cira T. (2008) Kateretidae & Nitidulidae of Wisconsin
6.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
7.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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 10 November, 2005 - 6:14pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 February, 2021 - 7:16pm

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