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Species Rhizophagus parallelocollis - Graveyard Beetle

Rhizophagus parallelocollis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
Family Monotomidae (Minute Clubbed Beetles)
Genus Rhizophagus
No Taxon (subgenus Rhizophagus)
Species parallelocollis (Graveyard Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Rhizophagus parallelocollis (Gyllenhal 1827)
the common name refers to its proclivity to swarm in graves, etc.
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (NF-ON to TN-IN + BC-WA)(1)(2)(3)
Habitat
moldy substrates in basements, deep layers of compost piles, mammal burrows, brushwood piles, flood debris, old bones, sap; common in cemeteries where it swarms in graves, tombstones, and on corpses in 10-24 month-old coffins(3)(1)
Food
likely prefers dipteran larvae(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: MA 1895(1)
Works Cited
1.A review of the North American species of Rhizophagus Herbst and a revision of the Nearctic members of the subgenus Anomophagus
Bousquet Y. 1990. Can. Entomol. 122: 131-171.
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.Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by v belov on 14 February, 2014 - 6:57am

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