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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Leiodinae » Agathidiini » Agathidium

Genus Agathidium

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Agathidium Round Fungus Beetle - Agathidium Round Fungus Beetle - Agathidium Agathidium mollinum Fall - Agathidium mollinum Agathidium - male Agathidium? - Agathidium Agathidiini? Found on snowpack at 7000ft - Agathidium Slime mold beetle - Agathidium
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 Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Leiodinae
Tribe Agathidiini
Genus Agathidium
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Agathidium Panzer 1797
Numbers
~60 spp. in our area(3), 100 described spp. in North & Central America(1), with additional species expected; ~850 total(4)
Range
Holarctic (in NA south to Guatemala & W.Indies); Oriental, New Guinea(3)
Habitat
Forests; usually associated with slime molds or basidiomycete fungi(1)
Food
Adults and larvae feed on slime molds(1)
Works Cited
1.Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North & Central America: Coleoptera, Leiodidae. Part 1
Wheeler, Quentin & Miller, Kelly B. 2005. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 290: 1-95.
2.Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North & Central America: Coleoptera, Leiodidae. Part 2
Miller, Kelly B. & Wheeler, Quentin. 2005. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 291: 1-167.
3.An annotated catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
S.B. Peck & A.F. Newton. 2017. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(2): 211-258.
4.Catalogue of Life
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 December, 2005 - 2:17pm
Additional contributions by Charlene Wood, t.loh, v belov, Thrasher
Last updated 18 December, 2023 - 8:00pm

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