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Species Xylita laevigata

Melandryids? - Xylita laevigata - male - female

Dolotarsus or Xylita? - Xylita laevigata

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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Melandryinae

Tribe Xylitini

Genus Xylita

Species laevigata (Xylita laevigata)

Explanation of Names

Xylita laevigata (Hellenius 1786)

Range

holarctic; in NA, transcontinental in Canada & n. US(1)(2)

Habitat

conifer forests(1)

Food

larvae in the wood of conifers, occasionally in deciduous trees(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska

2.	Coleoptera Poloniae

Contributed by v belov on 3 October, 2011 - 6:15pm
Last updated 25 April, 2012 - 12:14pm

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