Species Thanasimus formicarius

From Northern CA - Thanasimus formicarius

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Clerinae

Genus Thanasimus

Species formicarius (Thanasimus formicarius)

Explanation of Names

Thanasimus formicarius (Linnaeus 1758)

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(1), once introduced in NA for biocontrol purposes, with scattered collection records across e. Canada (NS-ON), suspected to mostly reflect incidental interceptions(2)(3)

Habitat

under bark in galleries of other beetles, usually on conifers(1)

Food

mostly beetle larvae(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: 1892 (intentional release to control Dendroctonus frontalis(2)

Works Cited

1.	Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae

2.	New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Trogossitidae, Cleridae, and Melyridae... Webster R.P., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 141-156.

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 v belov on 12 February, 2014 - 7:37pm
Last updated 13 February, 2014 - 2:17pm

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