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Species Thanasimus formicarius

Thanasimus formicarius 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.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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