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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Cryptarchinae » Glischrochilus » subgenus Librodor (Glischrochilus subgenus Librodor) » Picnic Beetle (Glischrochilus fasciatus)

Species Glischrochilus fasciatus - Picnic Beetle

Picnic Beetle - Glischrochilus fasciatus

Nitidulidae Glischrochilus fasciatus? - Glischrochilus fasciatus

Glischrochilus fasciatus? - Glischrochilus fasciatus

Gliuschrochilus fasciatus - Glischrochilus fasciatus

Glischrochilus sp.? - Glischrochilus fasciatus

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

No Taxon (subgenus Librodor)

Species fasciatus (Picnic Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Glischrochilus fasciatus (Olivier 1790)

Size

4-7 mm(1)

Identification

Black and shiny with two transverse yellowish/orangish bands, sometimes reduced; venter dark

(reddish-brown in G. quadrisignatus)

Range

e. NA to BC (NS-BC to FL-KS-NM-OR) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5), less common out west, and mostly absent from Gulf states

Habitat

Adults under bark of injured or dying trees, on sap, oozing tree wounds, decaying/fermenting fruit, etc.

Remarks

pest of crops (corn, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes); transmits oak wilt fungi; nuisance at picnics and other outdoor gatherings with food(4)

Works Cited

1.	An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae) Price M.B., Young D.K. 2006. Insecta Mundi 20: 69‒84.

2.	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.

3.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

4.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 2 November, 2004 - 10:11pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 2:39pm

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