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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Rhymbomicrus

Rhymbomicrus sp. - Rhymbomicrus Rhymbomicrus lobatus Rhymbomicrus lobatus Rhymbomicrus lobatus Rhymbomicrus Rhymbomicrus Rhymbomicrus Rhymbomicrus
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 Anamorphidae
Genus Rhymbomicrus
Explanation of Names
Rhymbomicrus Casey 1916
Numbers
3 species in our area, 5 total(1)
Size
1-1.4 mm(2)
Range
NA (e. US to Nicaragua) & West Indies(1); our spp.(2):
R. caseyi Pakaluk 1987 - KS & e. OK
R. lobatus LeConte & Horn 1883 - se. US
R. stephani Pakaluk 1987 - e. OK
Habitat
Most have been found in forest litter, under bark, or flood debris. Also in flight trap and beaten from vegetation.(2)
Remarks
Uncommon(2)
Works Cited
1.An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)
Shockley et al. 2009. Zootaxa 1999: 1-113.
2.Revision of the North American Rhymbomicrus Casey (Coleoptera: Endomychidae)
Pakaluk, J. 1987. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 80: 456-461.