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Species Amphicrossus ciliatus

Representative Images

Nitidulidae, head ventral - Amphicrossus ciliatus Nitidulidae, elytral edge setae - Amphicrossus ciliatus Nitidulid - Amphicrossus ciliatus Drab sap feeder - Amphicrossus ciliatus beetle062620-3 - Amphicrossus ciliatus 3022759 beetle - Amphicrossus ciliatus At porchlight, with phoretic mite - Amphicrossus ciliatus Amphicrossus ciliatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Amphicrossinae
Genus Amphicrossus
Species ciliatus (Amphicrossus ciliatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Amphicrossus ciliatus (Olivier)
Orig. Comb: Nitidula ciliatus Olivier 1811

Size

3.5-4.5 mm(1)

Identification

Range

e. NA (QC-FL to ON-IA-TX) to Panama, W. Indies(2)(3)

Habitat

usually found on sap during the spring and on flowers of Eupatorium and related plants in the fall(4)

Season

mostly May-July and later (BG data)

Remarks

common at lights

Works Cited

1.An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)
Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
4.A revision of Neartic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1943. Bull. comp. Zool. 92: 121-278.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 June, 2006 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 April, 2019 - 1:06pm

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