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Species Sacodes pulchella

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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.