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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Horned Powder-post Beetles (Bostrichidae) » Powder-post Beetles (Lyctinae) » Trogoxylon

Genus Trogoxylon

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
elongate big-eyed prognathous beetle - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum Lyctinae - Powder-post Beetle - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum Cathartosilvanus sp ? - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum - female Bostrichidae, dorsal - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum Velvety Powderpost Beetle - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum tiny elongate beetle - Trogoxylon parallelipipedum Trogoxylon parallelipipedum Trogoxylon? - Trogoxylon
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Bostrichidae (Horned Powder-post Beetles)
Subfamily Lyctinae (Powder-post Beetles)
Genus Trogoxylon
Explanation of Names
Trogoxylon LeConte 1862
Greek 'gnaw' + 'wood'(1)
Numbers
2 spp. apparently native + one adventive in our area(2), 15 spp. worldwide(3)
Identification
key to New World spp. in(1)
Range
nearly cosmopolitan(2)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Trogoxylini Lesne 1921, that contains 6 genera
Works Cited
1.A revision of the New World species of powder-post beetles belonging to the family Lyctidae.
Gerberg, E.J. 1957. USDA Technical Bulletin 1157: 1–55.
2.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.
3.World catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)
Borowski J., Węgrzynowicz P. 2007. Mantis, Olsztyn, 247 pp.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 June, 2006 - 6:03pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 8:12pm

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