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Species Glischrochilus fasciatus - Picnic Beetle

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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)
See Also
Megalodacne fasciata

Det. v belov, 2009
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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