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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 » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae)

Family Oedemeridae - False Blister Beetles

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Beetle - Xanthochroa testacea Oxacis angustata Champion - Oxacis angustata ID for a red and black beetle? - Asclera excavata False Blister Beetle Coleoptera - Nacerdes melanura False Blister Beetle - Xanthochroa lateralis Asclerini? - Asclera discolor Oedemerinae? - Asclera excavata
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 Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Other Common Names
Pollen Feeding Beetles(1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised by Arnett (1951)(2)
Explanation of Names
Oedemeridae Latreille 1810
Oedemera: Greek οιδειν 'swell' + μηροσ 'thigh'(3)
Numbers
3 subfamilies, with ~90 spp. in 18 genera in our area, ~1500 spp. in 115 genera worldwide(4) [500/100 per(5)]; 13 spp. in Canada(6)
Overview of our fauna
Family Oedemeridae
Subfamily Calopodinae Calopus · Sparedrus
Subfamily Oedemerinae
Tribe Ditylini Ditylus
Tribe Asclerini Asclera · Copidita · Eumecomera · Heliocis · Hypasclera · Oxacis · Oxycopis · Paroxacis · Rhinoplatia · Sisenes · Vasaces · Xanthochroina
Tribe Nacerdini Nacerdes · Xanthochroa
Subfamily Polypriinae Polypria
Size
5-20 mm
Identification
Antennae with 11 long filiform, serrate or clavate antennomeres. Tarsal formula 5-5-4. 5-6, 2 connate ventrites. Elongate, pubescent, often brightly colored. Head not abruptly constricted posteriorly. Prothorax without margins, expanded anteriorly, then narrowed, sides rounded.
Key to Florida spp.(1)
Range
widely dist.
Habitat
Most abundant along the coast and in moist wooded habitats. Adults of some species are nectar and pollen feeders and often found on flowers. They are also found resting on foliage or in moist, rotten logs. Larvae develop in moist, decaying logs, stumps, and roots of hardwoods and conifers, including wharf pilings and driftwood.(7)
Food
Adults take pollen, typically on early spring flowers
Remarks
some produce toxic defensive chemicals
See Also
Meloidae
Internet References
Oedemeridae of Texas - Mike Quinn, 2016
U. Florida
Works Cited
1.Arnett R.H., Jr. (2000-2005) False blister beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)
2.A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257-391.
3.The Century Dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language
4.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.
5.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
6.The Oedemeridae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada
C.G. Majka & D. Langor. 2011. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society 7: 1-6.
7.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Cotinis on 4 July, 2004 - 9:22pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 February, 2018 - 9:37am

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