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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Derodontoidea » Tooth-necked Fungus Beetles (Derodontidae) » Laricobius

Genus Laricobius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Small Black Beetle - Laricobius nigrinus Small Black Beetle - Laricobius nigrinus beetle - Laricobius rubidus Laricobius Derodontoidea - Derodontidae - Laricobius - Laricobius nigrinus Laricobius rubidus Laricobius erichsoni - male Laricobius erichsoni - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Derodontoidea
Family Derodontidae (Tooth-necked Fungus Beetles)
Genus Laricobius
Explanation of Names
Laricobius Rosenhauer 1846
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1), 18 total(2)
Range
holarctic genus, most diverse in e. Asia(2); in our area, ne. & nw. NA (NL-MI-DC; ID-BC-CA)(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.A world catalogue of the family Derodontidae (Coleoptera)
J. Háva. 2006. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75: 29-38.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 27 February, 2006 - 5:23am
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 1 November, 2022 - 2:44pm

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