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Genus Lordithon

Rove Beetle - Lordithon White King Bolete Rove Beetle - Lordithon Staphylinidae, Lordithon cinctus?, dorsal - Lordithon Staphylinidae 86 - Lordithon Staphylinidae 94 - Lordithon Lordithon sp? - Lordithon Lordithon Lordithon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Mycetoporinae
Genus Lordithon
Explanation of Names
Lordithon Thomson 1859
Numbers
23 spp. in our area, ~100 more worldwide(1)
Identification
revised in(2)
Range
Eurasia (most spp.), the Americas, and Australia(1)
Habitat
fungi (mostly mushrooms)
Food
adults feed on fly larvae(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A REVISION OF THE GENUS LORDITHON THOMSON OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE)
J.M. Campbell. 1982. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada.