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

Genus Colopterus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Beetle - Colopterus truncatus Nit 2 - Colopterus truncatus Coleopterus posticus (Erichson) - Colopterus posticus Colopterus maculatus (Erichson) - Colopterus maculatus small beetle - Colopterus truncatus Colopterus semitectus nitidulid - Colopterus maculatus nitidulid - Colopterus maculatus
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 Cillaeinae
Genus Colopterus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Colastus Erichson 1843, Cyllopodes Murray 1864
Explanation of Names
Colopterus Erichson 1842
Numbers
11 spp. in our area, many in the Neotropics(1)(2)(3)
Identification
Adult photos of 5 species at(4)
Range
worldwide and over much of our area(1)(2)(3)(5):
C. truncatus much of NA
C. semitectus e. NA
C. maculatus & C. unicolor e. US
C. niger (=morio) se. US (DC-IL-FL-LA)
C. gerhardi IL (a single specimen known)
4 spp. (C. floridanus, C. convergens, C. infimus, and the adventive C. posticus) restricted to FL
C. testaceus sw. US
Habitat
Often found at tree wounds
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.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
3.Checklist of the Coleoptera of Oklahoma
4.Price M.B., Cira T. (2008) Kateretidae & Nitidulidae of Wisconsin
5.A new species of Colopterus from Florida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
R.H. Parry and H.F. Howden. 1975. The Coleopterists Bulletin 29(4) pp. 275-279 .
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 17 November, 2005 - 8:20pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 February, 2015 - 10:52am

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