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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Ischyropalpus

pale-shouldered, white-belted anthicid - Ischyropalpus nitidulus Antlike Flower Beetle - Ischyropalpus nitidulus Ischyropalpus occidentalis (Champion) - Ischyropalpus occidentalis Anthicid - Ischyropalpus dispar Male, Ischyropalpus? - Ischyropalpus - male Ischyropalpus? - Ischyropalpus nitidulus Anthicidae - Ischyropalpus subtilissimus Ischrypalpus - possibly nitidulus? - Ischyropalpus nitidulus
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 Anthicinae
Genus Ischyropalpus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Ischyropalpus LaFerté-Senéctère 1849
'one with enlarged feelers/palpi'
Numbers
13 spp. in our area(2)
Range
primarily Neotropical; in our area, most diverse in sw. US; I. nitidulus is widespread in Canada & the western 2/3 of the US, I. obscurus & I. sturmi are eastern, I. turgidicollis & I. cochisei are western and reach BC); none in FL or adjacent regions(1)(3)
Habitat
on flowers or vegetation(2)
Food
pollen, small arthropods(2)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic Ischyropalpus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Werner F.G. 1973. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 66: 1055-1064.
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.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska