Species Opilo domesticus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

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 Opilo

Species domesticus (Opilo domesticus)

Explanation of Names

Opilo domesticus (Sturm 1837)

Range

native to w. Palaearctic, adventive in NA (Canada, Mexico)(1)

Habitat

most often collected in old wooden buildings (barns, windmills, etc.) infested with wood borers; outdoors occurs in stored lumber and old trees damaged by beetle larvae, esp. Ptinidae & Cerambycidae(1)

Food

xylophagous insects, esp. beetles; both larvae and adults effectively destroy various pests of structural wood, fruit trees, and stored products, such as Anobium punctatum, Hylotrupes bajulus, Gracilia minuta, Scolytus rugulosus, Stegobium paniceum, etc.(1)

Remarks

adults active in the dark(1)

Works Cited

1.	Coleoptera Poloniae

Contributed by v belov on 19 February, 2014 - 6:36pm
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 12:18pm

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