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Species Aderus populneus

Aderidae - Antlike Leaf Beetle? - Aderus populneus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Aderidae (Ant-like Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Aderini

Genus Aderus

Species populneus (Aderus populneus)

Explanation of Names

Aderus populneus (Creutzer in Panzer 1796)

Size

1.8-2.3 mm(1)

Range

native to w. Palaearctic(2), adventive and now widespread in NA (NS-BC to MD-IA-UT-CA)(3)

Habitat

larvae in dead wood of deciduous trees overgrown with fungi(3)

Remarks

first detected in our area in 1940s (IA, ON)(3)

Internet References

Species page(4)

Works Cited

1.	Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet

2.	Coleoptera Poloniae

3.	The Aderidae (Coleoptera) of Maritime Provinces of Canada C.G. Majka. 2011. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society 7: 65-69.

4.	WCG – Website of the Watford Coleoptera Group

Contributed by v belov on 7 September, 2011 - 11:32am
Last updated 9 March, 2015 - 3:27pm

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