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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Carpophilinae » Carpophilus » subgenus Myothorax (Carpophilus subgenus Myothorax) » Carpophilus nepos

Species Carpophilus nepos

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Carpophilus nepos Murray - Carpophilus nepos

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 (Nitidulid series)

Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)

Subfamily Carpophilinae

Genus Carpophilus

No Taxon (subgenus Myothorax)

Species nepos (Carpophilus nepos)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Syn: Carpophilus freemani Dobson 1956

Explanation of Names

Carpophilus nepos Murray 1864

Size

1.5-2.6 mm(1)

Identification

"many things have been misidentified as this species, [native range] unknown" (A.R. Cline, pers. comm. to =v= 5.iv.2011)

Range

Pantropical(2); in NA, e. US(3)

Food

corn, rice, nuts, vegetables, bones(2)

Remarks

males produce an aggregation pheromone that attracts beetles of both sexes (Petroski & Weisleder 1997)

See Also

Nitops pallipennis (Say) - pronotum more rounded w finer punctations, scutellum less triangular, first exposed abdominal segment wider

- Range:: mostly w. US, FL

Det. V. Belov, 2010

Works Cited

1.	An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae) Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.

2.	Pests of Stored Foodstuffs and Their Control Hill, D.S. 2002. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. 496 pp.

3.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 5 January, 2011 - 11:25am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 December, 2021 - 1:43pm

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