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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) » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae) » Rhizophagus » subgenus Rhizophagus (Rhizophagus subgenus Rhizophagus) » Rhizophagus sayi

Species Rhizophagus sayi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Rhizophagus under Bark - Rhizophagus sayi Rhizophagus sayi? - Rhizophagus sayi Rhizophagus sayi? - Rhizophagus sayi unknown beetle - Rhizophagus sayi rotten wood beetle - Rhizophagus sayi rotten wood beetle - Rhizophagus sayi Rhizophagus sayi beetle in log - Rhizophagus sayi
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)
Family Monotomidae (Minute Clubbed Beetles)
Genus Rhizophagus
No Taxon (subgenus Rhizophagus)
Species sayi (Rhizophagus sayi)
Explanation of Names
Rhizophagus sayi Schaeffer, 1913
sayi = named after Thomas Say, a prominent American entomologist and naturalist of the early 19th century
Range
e. US (NH-SC-LA to MI-e.KS-TX)(1)(2)
Habitat
deciduous forests; recorded from oaks, American Beech, American Chestnut, Sugar Maple, and Black Cherry(1)
Works Cited
1.A review of the North American species of Rhizophagus Herbst and a revision of the Nearctic members of the subgenus Anomophagus
Bousquet Y. 1990. Can. Entomol. 122: 131-171.
2.An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas
Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.
Contributed by tom murray on 6 February, 2006 - 12:56pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 17 April, 2021 - 2:22am

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