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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Byrrhoidea » Pill Beetles (Byrrhidae) » Syncalyptinae » Chaetophora » Chaetophora spinosa

Species Chaetophora spinosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Pill Beetle? - Chaetophora spinosa Pill Beetle? - Chaetophora spinosa pill beetle - Chaetophora spinosa pill beetle - Chaetophora spinosa Pill Beetles - Chaetophora spinosa Chaetophora spinosa minute byrrhid - Chaetophora spinosa Chaetophora spinosa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Byrrhoidea
Family Byrrhidae (Pill Beetles)
Subfamily Syncalyptinae
Genus Chaetophora
Species spinosa (Chaetophora spinosa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syncalypta spinosa
Explanation of Names
Chaetophora spinosa (Rossi 1794)
Size
0.9‒2.1 mm
Range
native to, and widespread across Eurasia(1), adventive in NA: ne. US (south to MD‒OH) & adjacent Canada + ID‒BC(2)(3)
Habitat
disturbed, moist habitats, with silty topsoils or exposures(3)
Works Cited
1.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 3. Coleoptera I
Lehr P.A., ed. 1989. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 572 pp.
2.Johnson P.J. (-2013) Project Byrrhus
3.Adventive and native Byrrhidae (Coleoptera) newly recorded from Prince Edward Island
Majka C.G., Noronha C., Smith M. 2006. Zootaxa 1168: 21-30.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 7 May, 2006 - 1:16am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2024 - 3:46pm

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