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Species Axinotarsus pulicarius

Shiny beetle on hydrangea - Axinotarsus pulicarius - female

Introduced melyrid - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male

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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