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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 » Nitidula complex » Nitidula » Two-spotted Sap Beetle (Nitidula bipunctata)

Species Nitidula bipunctata - Two-spotted Sap Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 (Nitidula complex)
Genus Nitidula
Species bipunctata (Two-spotted Sap Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Nitidula bipunctata (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
3–5 mm(1)
Range
holarctic, widespread in the northern hemisphere, incl. NA (NS-AK to FL-TX)(1)(2)(3)(4)
Habitat
on carrion, occasionally indoors(1)
Food
carrion(4); indoors may feed on meats, bread, cake...(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: ID 1878 (which suggests it's not adventive)(2)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
2.New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada
Majka C.G., Webster R., Cline A.R. 2008. ZooKeys 2: 337-356.
3.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.
4.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
Contributed by v belov on 12 April, 2010 - 6:59pm
Last updated 1 March, 2014 - 3:00pm

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