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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Plate-thigh Beetles (Eucinetidae)

Family Eucinetidae - Plate-thigh Beetles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Eucinetid in California - Euscaphurus spinipes Eucinetid in California - Euscaphurus spinipes Eucinetus haemorrhoidalis (Germar) - Eucinetus haemorrhoidalis Eucinetidae maybe Euscaphurus saltator? - male Santa Cruz-01 - Euscaphurus spinipes Scirtidae or Eucinetidae? Scirtidae or Eucinetidae? Believe Nycteus genus?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Scirtoidea
Family Eucinetidae (Plate-thigh Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Eucinetidae Lacordaire 1857
Numbers
11 spp. in 4 genera in NA(1), >50 spp. in 11 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
key to ne. species(3)
Range
worldwide, incl. most of NA; more diverse in Eurasia(1)
Habitat
in detritus or under fungus-covered bark of trees(3)
Food
larvae feed on a variety of fungi, incl. spores of slime molds and the fruiting bodies of basidomycete fungi(3)
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.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.
3.The Eucinetidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G. 2010. J. Acad. Ent. Soc. 6: 16-21.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 11 April, 2006 - 8:06pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 12 January, 2015 - 2:07am

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