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Genus Tomoderus

Antlike flower beetle - Tomoderus Beetle - Tomoderus constrictus - male Small, brown beetle - Tomoderus Small Beetle - Tomoderus Ant-like Beetle - Tomoderus Tomoderus? - Tomoderus Tomoderus? - Tomoderus Tomoderus? - Tomoderus
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Tomoderinae
Genus Tomoderus
Explanation of Names
Tomoderus LaFerté-Sénectère 1849
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, ~300 worldwide(1)
Identification
Revision in Werner (1958)(2)
Range
worldwide, mostly palaeotropical; in our area, e. US (mostly southeast) + WA(1); clearly a Gondwanaland group, that has penetrated poorly into the Nearctic region (3 spp., vs. hundreds in the tropics) (D.S. Chandler, pers. comm. to =v=, 26.x.2011)
Habitat
typically epigeic(3): leaf litter, wood trash, occasionally on carrion(4)
Food
detritophagous or omnivorous(3)
Remarks
comes to UV lights(4)
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.
2.A revision of the Nearctic species of Tomoderus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
F.G. Werner. 1958. Psyche, 64: 51-59.
3.Telnov D. (2011) Anthicidae, Ant-like flower beetles (in The Tree of Life Web Project)
4.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.