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Penthe
Genus
Penthe
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Tenebrionoidea
Family
Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)
Genus
Penthe
Explanation of Names
Penthe
Newman
1838
Greek
penthe
'sorrow, mourner' (referring to the color)
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 9 total
(
1
)
Identification
scutellum dark in
P. pimelia
, orange in
P. obliquata
Range
holarctic & Oriental; in our area, both spp. are widespread in e. half of the US and adjacent Canada
(
1
)
Habitat
forested areas; on woody fungi and under loose bark; rather common
Remarks
our sole representative of the holarctic & Oriental subfamily Penthinae, that contains a total of 2 genera
(
1
)
come to lights
(
2
)
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.
Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by
Cotinis
on 1 July, 2004 - 4:29pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 4 February, 2015 - 8:49am