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Genus Mycetochara

J larvae pupa - Mycetochara binotata Comb-clawed Beetle - Mycetochara fraterna Hymenorus or Mycetochara? - Mycetochara foveata Doubly marked beetle - Mycetochara Mycetochara binotata pale-footed beetle - Mycetochara beetle with orange spot - Mycetochara Mycetochara - Mycetochara fraterna
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Alleculinae (Comb-clawed Beetles)
Subtribe Mycetocharina
Genus Mycetochara
Explanation of Names
Mycetochara Berthold 1827
Numbers
10 spp. in our area(1), >40 total(2)
Range
across the US & so. Canada(1); probably a holarctic genus
Remarks
not yet in guide: M. basillaris (Say 1824) [species oblita? PA]
M. lata Hatch 1965 [OR]
M. perplexata Marshall 1970 [= marshalli Campbell; CA]
M. pubipennis (LeConte 1878) [CA]
Works Cited
1.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.
2.BioLib.cz