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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles (Latridiidae) » Corticariinae » Corticaria » Corticaria ferruginea

Species Corticaria ferruginea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Corticaria ferruginea - male Corticaria ferruginea - male Corticaria ferruginea - male Latridid - Corticaria ferruginea Latridid - Corticaria ferruginea
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 Latridiidae (Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Corticariinae
Genus Corticaria
Species ferruginea (Corticaria ferruginea)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Corticaria fenestralis (Linnaeus), Corticaria rugulosa LeConte, Corticaria obtusa LeConte, Corticaria kirbyi LeConte, Corticaria boreophila Motschulsky, and many more...
Explanation of Names
Corticaria ferruginea Marsham 1802
Size
1.5-1.8 mm(1)
Identification
Ferruginous brown, the head often darker; elytral pubescence short, appressed, uniform; pronotum wider than long, widest before middle, sides broadly rounded and feebly serrulate.
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive and widespread in NA (LB-AK to FL & CA)(1) [not marked as non-native in(2)]
Habitat
vegetable refuse, moss, cut grass, hay, manure heaps, under pine bark, in flour(1)
Works Cited
1.Latridiidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: New records, keys to identification, new synonyms, distribution, and zoogeography
Majka C.G., Langor D., Rücker W.H. 2009. The Canadian Entomologist 141: 317‒370.
2.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 Charlene Wood on 4 October, 2010 - 10:19pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 December, 2014 - 12:15pm

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