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

subgenus Gratusus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Mystery beetle - Mycetophagus obsoletus Mycetophagus obsoletus Mycetophagus obsoletus? - Mycetophagus obsoletus Beetle - Mycetophagus obsoletus Brown Beetle with orange-yellow spotting - Mycetophagus pluriguttatus Brown Beetle with orange-yellow spotting - Mycetophagus pluriguttatus Mycetophagus obsoletus? - Mycetophagus obsoletus Mycetophagus obsoletus - male
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)
Genus Mycetophagus
No Taxon subgenus Gratusus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
one sp. recently transferred to Neotriphyllus(1)
Explanation of Names
Gratusus Casey
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(2)(1)
Range
M. tenuifasciatus is boreal transcontinental (QC-BC to NH-MI-CO), M. obsoletus e. US (NY-IN to FL-TX), M. praetermissus ne. US (MA-NY-MI), M. pluriguttatus is western (BC-CA to MT-WY)(2)
Works Cited
1.Review of the genera of Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) with descriptions of new genera and a world generic key
Lawrence J.F., Escalona H.E., Leschen R.A.B., Ślipiński A. 2014. Zootaxa 3826: 195–229.
2.Revision of nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera)
Parsons C.T. 1975. Col. Bull. 29: 93-108.
Contributed by v belov on 3 December, 2012 - 2:34pm
Last updated 27 April, 2019 - 6:42pm

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