Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Anamorphidae » Symbiotes

Genus Symbiotes

Tiny orange beetle under bark - Symbiotes gibberosus Tiny orange beetle under bark - Symbiotes gibberosus Symbiotes gibberosus tiny beetle - Symbiotes gibberosus tiny beetle - Symbiotes gibberosus Sonora-4 - Symbiotes gibberosus Anamorphidae, Symbiotes gibberosus? - Symbiotes gibberosus Anamorphidae, Symbiotes gibberosus? - Symbiotes gibberosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Anamorphidae
Genus Symbiotes
Explanation of Names
Symbiotes Redtenbacher 1847
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (incl. one adventive), 5 total(1)(2)
Range
holarctic (w. Palaearctic & NA)(1); the two native spp. are restricted to e. US & ON(2)(3); only the adventive S. gibberosus (currently the commonest Symbiotes species anywhere in NA) is known to occur in the west
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.
2.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.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by v belov on 11 July, 2010 - 4:49pm
Last updated 15 February, 2015 - 5:49pm

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo