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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Minute Hooded Beetles (Corylophidae) » Sericoderus

Genus Sericoderus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
1mm carcass beetle - Sericoderus lateralis tiny beetle - Sericoderus Sericoderus specimen 1, dorsal - Sericoderus - male beetle - Sericoderus Sericoderus sp.? - Sericoderus sericoderus sp. - Sericoderus Unknown Beetle - Sericoderus Corylophid of sorts. - Sericoderus
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 Corylophidae (Minute Hooded Beetles)
Genus Sericoderus
Explanation of Names
Sericoderus Stephens 1829
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1):
Sericoderus debilis Casey (Sonoma Co., CA)
Sericoderus lateralis (Gyllenhal) (cosmopolitan)
Sericoderus obscurus LeConte (e.US) Holotype
Sericoderus quadratus Casey (Monterey, CA)
Sericoderus subtilis LeConte (e.US) Holotype
Size
~1 mm or less
Identification
10 or 11 segmented antennae, basal pronotal angles acute and extending beyond base of pronotum.
Range
One species cosmopolitan(2), other described species across most of NA(1)
Habitat
Often found in decaying plant matter, such as compost or grass cuttings.
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Sericoderini Matthews 1888, that contains one more cosmopolitan genus(2)
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.Phylogeny and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) with descriptions of new genera and larvae
Ślipiński A., Tomaszewska W., Lawrence J.F. 2009. Systematic Entomology 34: 409–433.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 17 November, 2005 - 9:04pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 18 April, 2025 - 10:18pm

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