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Subfamily Silvaninae

tiny bark beetle? - Cathartosilvanus imbellis Beetle 2 - Nausibius major Beetles in birdseed - Oryzaephilus - male - female Silvanus muticus Foreign Grain Beetle - Ahasverus advena Coleoptera - Silvanus Ahasverus rectus? - Ahasverus rectus Silanidae - Silvanus recticollis
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 (Cucujid series)
Family Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Silvaninae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
see (1)
Numbers
ca. 30 spp. in 10 genera in our area(2)(1)
Identification
several genera revised in (3)
Range
worldwide
Remarks
includes several important stored food pests
Works Cited
1.New and little known Coleoptera (Silvanidae: Silvaninae) from Central and South America
Halstead D.G.H. 2020. Insecta Mundi 0842: 1-37.
2.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.
3.A revision of the genus Silvanus Latreille (s.l.) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae)
Halstead D.G.H. 1973. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Entomol. 29(2): 37-112.