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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Cucujid series » Lined Flat Bark Beetles (Laemophloeidae) » Placonotus

Genus Placonotus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Tiny laemophloeids - Placonotus zimmermanni Lined Flat Bark Beetle - Placonotus zimmermanni Lined flat bark beetle - Placonotus zimmermanni Placonotus zimmermanni (LeConte) - Placonotus zimmermanni Beetle under Bark - Placonotus zimmermanni Flat Beetle - Placonotus nitens Placonotus? - Placonotus modestus Cryptolestes pusillus - Placonotus zimmermanni
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Laemophloeidae (Lined Flat Bark Beetles)
Genus Placonotus
Explanation of Names
Placonotus Macleay 1871
'flat-backed'
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, ~40 total(1)(2) • not yet in the guide: macrognathus Thomas [FL] & arizonensis Thomas [AZ]
Size
1.6‒2.1 mm
Identification
Key to spp. in (3)
Range
worldwide (more diverse in the Old World tropics)(1); in our area, e. Canada (NS‒MB)(4) and most of the US (P. nitens being the only West Coast representative)(5)(6)
Habitat
forested areas(3)
Works Cited
1.Thomas M.C. (‒2011) A preliminary checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world
2.A new Nearctic species of Placonotus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)
Thomas M.C. 2011. Insecta Mundi 0201: 1‒4.
3.A revision of the New World species of Placonotus Macleay (Coleoptera: Cucujidae)
Thomas M.C. 1984. FSCA Occasional Papers 3: i‒vii, 1‒28.
4.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.
5.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.
6.California Beetle Project
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 10 April, 2006 - 8:37pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 March, 2025 - 7:48pm

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