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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Cucujid series » Silken Fungus Beetles (Cryptophagidae) » Cryptophaginae » Cryptophagini » Telmatophilus » Telmatophilus typhae

Species Telmatophilus typhae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
beetle - Telmatophilus typhae (somthing) Fungus beetle? - Telmatophilus typhae Crypto - Telmatophilus typhae Telmatophilus americanus? - Telmatophilus typhae beetle - Telmatophilus typhae - female Silken Fungus Beetle - Telmatophilus typhae - female Beetle - Telmatophilus typhae beetle very abundant on Typha sp. - Telmatophilus typhae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea (Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles)
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptophaginae
Tribe Cryptophagini
Genus Telmatophilus
Species typhae (Telmatophilus typhae)
Explanation of Names
Telmatophilus typhae (Fallén 1802)
Size
1.9-2.6 mm (Hoebeke & Wheeler 2000)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA, with published records for Maritime Canada only (earliest specimen collected in 1986)(1), but apparently occurs over several ne. US states, too (see BG submissions)
Food
on male flowers of cattails (Typha, Typhaceae)(1)
Works Cited
1.Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada
Majka C.G., Langor D. 2010. ZooKeys 35: 13-35.
Contributed by v belov on 22 June, 2010 - 7:07am
Last updated 11 January, 2015 - 9:17pm

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