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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Hairy Fungus Beetles (Mycetophagidae) » Mycetophagini » Mycetophagus » subgenus Mycetophagus (Mycetophagus subgenus Mycetophagus)

subgenus Mycetophagus

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Mycetophagus punctatus Hairy Fungus Beetle - Mycetophagus serrulatus red-brown and black beetle - Mycetophagus punctatus Unknown Beetle - Mycetophagus serrulatus Upshur County HFB - Mycetophagus flexuosus Mycetophagidae? - Mycetophagus Mycetophagus serrulatus Mycetophagus - Mycetophagus flexuosus
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 Mycetophagidae (Hairy Fungus Beetles)
Tribe Mycetophagini
Genus Mycetophagus
No Taxon subgenus Mycetophagus
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 9 total(1)
Range
holarctic(1); in NA, widespread; 3 spp. widely eastern, M. californicus is western (west coast & the Rockies), all four range into Canada(2)
Works Cited
1.World catalogue of Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)
Háva J. 2022. Studies & Reports, Taxon. Ser. 18: 287‒331.
2.Revision of nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1975. Col. Bull. 29: 93-108.
Contributed by v belov on 3 December, 2012 - 2:28pm
Last updated 15 May, 2024 - 9:47pm

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