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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Marsh Beetles (Scirtidae) » Sacodes » Sacodes pulchella

Species Sacodes pulchella

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Sacodes? - Sacodes pulchella Marsh Beetle - Sacodes pulchella Sacodes pulchella (Guérin-Méneville) - Sacodes pulchella Scirtid - Sacodes pulchella Scirtidae - Sacodes pulchella beetle060719-13 - Sacodes pulchella Sacodes thoracica? - Sacodes pulchella Beetle for ID - Sacodes pulchella
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Scirtoidea
Family Scirtidae (Marsh Beetles)
Genus Sacodes
Species pulchella (Sacodes pulchella)
Explanation of Names
Sacodes pulchella (Guérin-Méneville 1843)
pulchella 'pretty'
Size
3.5-5.0 mm(1)
Identification
variable:
S. thoracica is under 3.75 mm (M.Pintar, 2021, pers. comm.)
Range
e.NA (NB‒ON‒MN to FL‒TX)(2)
Habitat
forests; on tree trunks and vegetation; come to light(1)
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.Catalog of the Scirtidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea), with taxonomic and distributional notes
Gimmel M.L., Epler J.H. 2024. Col. Bull. 78: 319–334.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 June, 2006 - 2:31am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2025 - 10:15pm

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