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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Orophiini » Octotemnus

Genus Octotemnus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
More Octotemnus - Octotemnus - male - female Another Octotemnus female - Octotemnus - female Octotemnus spp. - Octotemnus Coleoptera - Octotemnus - male Coleoptera - Octotemnus - male Ciidae found burrowing in Trametes versicolor - Octotemnus - male Octotemnus glabriculus - male Octotemnus sp. - Octotemnus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Ciidae (Minute Tree-fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Ciinae
Tribe Orophiini
Genus Octotemnus
Explanation of Names
Octotemnus Mellié 1847
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (one discovered in 2003-7 in se. US), ~20 total(1)
Range
holarctic (highly diversified in the Palaearctic) & Indo-Pacific, but with no species restricted to NA(2)(1); in our area, the holarctic O. glabriculus is transcontinental in Canada, widespread in e. US and along the Pacific(3), the second species discovered in 2000s in se. US (VA-TX);
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.The Ciidae (Coleoptera) of New Brunswick, Canada: New records and new synonyms
Lopes-Andrade C., Webster R.P., Webster V.L., Alderson C.A., Hughes C.C., Sweeney J.D. 2016. Zookeys 573: 339–366.
3.Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera)
Lawrence J.F. 1971. Bull. MCZ 142: 419‒522.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 14 November, 2005 - 5:47pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 December, 2020 - 9:27pm

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