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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Ephistemus

LRB... - Ephistemus globulus Orthoperus atomus Gyllenhal - Ephistemus globulus Tiny beetle - Phalacridae? - Ephistemus globulus Tiny beetle - Phalacridae? - Ephistemus globulus Limnichidae? - Ephistemus globulus Sonora2 J39 - Ephistemus globulus Sonora2 J39 - Ephistemus globulus Modesto2 J22 - Ephistemus globulus
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 (Cucujid series)
Family Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)
Subfamily Atomariinae
Tribe Atomariini
Genus Ephistemus
Explanation of Names
Ephistemus Stephens 1829
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1)
Range
in our area, NY-IN-FL-AZ and Pacific Northwest(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.