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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Epuraeinae » Epuraea » Subgenus Haptoncus (Epuraea Subgenus Haptoncus) » Epuraea ocularis

Species Epuraea ocularis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Tiny Beetle found inside a split open orange on a tree - Epuraea ocularis

Very small Nitidulid.. - Epuraea ocularis

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 Epuraeinae

Genus Epuraea

No Taxon (Subgenus Haptoncus)

Species ocularis (Epuraea ocularis)

Explanation of Names

Epuraea ocularis Fairmaire 1849

Size

2.0-2.4 mm(1)

Range

CA, TX, FL - Map(2), native to tropical Asia(3), now almost cosmopolitan; introduced to NA from the Palaearctic very recently(4)

Habitat

larvae in rotting fruit, adults on flowers or decaying plant matter(5)

Food

mycophagous; manioc, dry fruit(3)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: TX 2010(4), still uncommon

spreads globally with fruit trade, reported established outdoors around the Mediterranean (to so. Germany) and in China(5)

Internet References

Species page(5)

Works Cited

1.	Key to adventive sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Hawaii, with notes on records and habits Ewing C.P., Cline A.R. 2005. Col. Bull. 59: 167-183.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Coleoptera families other than Cerambycidae, Curculionidae sensu lato, Chrysomelidae sensu lato and Coccinelidae -- Chapter 8.5 Denux O., Zagatti P. 2010. BioRisk 4: 315–406.

4.	Epuraea (Haptoncus) ocularis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) recently found in the U.S.A.... Cline A.R., Audisio P. 2011. Coleopterists Bulletin 65: 24-26.

5.	Atlas of beetles of Russia

Contributed by v belov on 25 June, 2010 - 2:43pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn
Last updated 5 January, 2020 - 7:17pm

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