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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 » Octotemnus glabriculus

Species Octotemnus glabriculus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · 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 Tenebrionoidea
Family Ciidae (Minute Tree-fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Ciinae
Tribe Orophiini
Genus Octotemnus
Species glabriculus (Octotemnus glabriculus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Octotemnus denudatus Casey 1898, Octotemnus laevis Casey 1898(1)
Explanation of Names
Octotemnus glabriculus (Gyllenhal 1827)
Range
holarctic; transcontinental in Canada, widespread in e. US and along the Pacific(1)(2)
Food
almost exclusively in polypores of the Coriolus host preference group(3)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Revision of the North American Ciidae (Coleoptera)
Lawrence J.F. 1971. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 142: 419-522.
3.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 14 November, 2005 - 5:47pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 September, 2017 - 6:53pm

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