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Genus Glischrochilus

Representative Images

New spotted nitidulid! - Glischrochilus vittatus 4-spotted Sap Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Glischrochilus quadrisignatus? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Coleoptera - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Four-spotted Sap Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus Glischrochilus quadrisignatus? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Mycetophagus punctata - Glischrochilus sanguinolentus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptarchinae
Genus Glischrochilus

Other Common Names

Red-spotted Sap Beetles

Explanation of Names

Glischrochilus Reitter 1873
Greek glischros 'sticky' + cheilos 'lip'(1)

Numbers

9 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(2)(3)

Range

worldwide, most diverse in SE Asia; in NA, widespread (most spp. transcontinental)

Works Cited

1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 2 November, 2004 - 10:06pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 11 February, 2015 - 4:28pm

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