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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Nitidulinae » Nitidulini » Phenolia complex » Phenolia » Phenolia grossa

Species Phenolia grossa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
Stelidota octomaculata? - Phenolia grossa fungus beetle - Phenolia grossa Big nit - Phenolia grossa Nit - Phenolia grossa Nitidulidae - Phenolia grossa Phenolia grossa? - Phenolia grossa Phenolia grossa Phenolia grossa
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 Nitidulinae
Tribe Nitidulini
No Taxon (Phenolia complex)
Genus Phenolia
Species grossa (Phenolia grossa)
Explanation of Names
Phenolia grossa (Fabricius 1801)
Size
6.0-8.5 mm(1)
Range
e. NA (NS-NC-AL to ON-MN-NM) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5), uncommon across the se US
Habitat
under bark and on fungi(6)
Season
year round(6)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
4.An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas
Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
6.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Stephen_WV on 18 November, 2005 - 3:39pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 October, 2023 - 1:57pm

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