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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Colonidae » Colon » subgenus Myloechus (Colon subgenus Myloechus) » Colon hubbardi

Species Colon hubbardi

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Colon (Myloechus) hubbardi Horn - Colon hubbardi

Colon hubbardi Horn - Colon hubbardi - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Colonidae

Genus Colon

No Taxon (subgenus Myloechus)

Species hubbardi (Colon hubbardi)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Colon (Myloechus) hubbardi Horn 1880

Explanation of Names

Named after Henry Guernsey Hubbard (1850-1899), an American entomologist born in Detroit, Michigan and trained at Harvard University.

Numbers

42 spp. (in 5 subgenera) (1)

Size

2.5 mm (Horn, 1880)

Range

Most of N Amer (except AK, so. FL, and desert Southwest)(2)

Type Locality: Michigan

Habitat

Occasionally collected by forest litter sifting (Peck & Stephan 1996)(2).

Life Cycle

Known to perform dispersal flights two to three hours before sunset during favorable weather conditions and may be found on low vegetation or on the wing during such flight periods (Peck & Stephan 1996)(2).

Remarks

Occasionally collected at UV lights (2).

Print References

Horn, G.H. 1880. Synopsis of the Silphidae of the United States, with reference to the genera of other countries. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 8: 219-322.

Peck, S.B. and K. Stephan. 1996. Revision of the genus Colon Herbst (Coleoptera: leiodidae: Coloninae) of North America. Canadian Entomologist 128: 667-741.

Internet References

Species page - A. K. Tishechkin (2007)(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Coleoptera species pages developed for the GSMNP project

Contributed by v belov on 6 March, 2011 - 10:04pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 1 April, 2012 - 2:32pm

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