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Species Epuraea ocularis

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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 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
s.CA, se US - 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)
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