Family Artematopodidae - Soft-bodied Plant Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References · Works Cited

Coleoptera Beetles - Macropogon testaceipennis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Artematopodidae (Soft-bodied Plant Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Artematopidae

Explanation of Names

Artematopodidae Lacordaire 1857

Numbers

8-9 spp. in 4 genera in our area (all in the Artematopodinae)(1)(2), 45 spp. in 8 genera of 3 subfamilies total(3)

Size

3-10 mm(1)

Identification

Head well recessed into pronotum and slightly to strongly downturned. Antennae 11-segmented, maxillary palpi 4-segmented, tarsi 5-5-5. Larvae elateriform. Apex of each elytron with ventral tongue-like process

Range

most of the New World (n. NA to Brazil) + E. Asia & so. Europe(4)

Habitat

Larvae of several spp. found in moss mats; adults on vegetation(1)

Internet References

Family overview(4)

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.	Brevipogon, a new genus of North American Artematopodidae (Coleoptera), with a key to world genera Lawrence J.F. 2005. Col. Bull. 59: 223-236.

3.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

4.	Lawrence J.F., et al. (2000-2005) Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification...

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 December, 2006 - 7:54pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Brady Richards
Last updated 6 October, 2022 - 8:42pm

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