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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Malachiina » Axinotarsus » Axinotarsus pulicarius

Species Axinotarsus pulicarius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Shiny beetle on hydrangea - Axinotarsus pulicarius - female Beetle - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male elytra - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male Beetle - Axinotarsus pulicarius Introduced melyrid - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male Axinotarsus pulicarius Axinotarsus pulicarius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Malachiinae
Tribe Malachiini
Subtribe Malachiina
Genus Axinotarsus
Species pulicarius (Axinotarsus pulicarius)
Explanation of Names
Axinotarsus pulicarius (Fabricius 1776)
Size
2.8–3.8 mm(1)
Identification
see(1)
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (ON, BC) (BG data)(1)
Food
adults on Holcus lanatus(1) and Dactylis glomerata(2)
Remarks
earliest NA records: ON 2008 (BG data), BC 2010(1)
Works Cited
1.Axinotarsus pulicarius (F.) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae), a soft-winged flower beetle new to North America
Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G. 2012. Zootaxa 3482: 82–87.
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by v belov on 28 June, 2011 - 6:05pm
Last updated 10 April, 2013 - 2:08pm

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