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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Death-watch Beetles (Anobiinae) » Stegobiini » Oligomerus

Genus Oligomerus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Oligomerus? - Oligomerus - female Death-Watch Beetle - Oligomerus beetle - Oligomerus Ptilodactyla ? - Oligomerus Anobiinae - Oligomerus beetle - Oligomerus Deathwatch - Oligomerus alternans Anobiinae - Oligomerus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Ptinidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)
Subfamily Anobiinae (Death-watch Beetles)
Tribe Stegobiini
Genus Oligomerus
Explanation of Names
Oligomerus Redtenbacher 1849; type species: O. brunneus (Olivier 1790) (Europe)
Numbers
14 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
key to species in(2)
Range
Northern hemisphere
Food
Larvae are wood-borers
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Eight new North American species of Anobiidae with keys and notes (Coleoptera)
White R.E. 1976. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 78: 154-170.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 23 November, 2006 - 2:25pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2015 - 11:54pm

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