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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » False Skin Beetles (Biphyllidae) » Diplocoelus

Genus Diplocoelus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
False skin beetle - Diplocoelus rudis Diplocoelus rudis Diplocoelus rudis False Skin Beetle - Diplocoelus rudis Biphyllidae - Diplocoelus brunneus Fungus beetle? - Diplocoelus brunneus Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Diplocoelus been there? - Diplocoelus brunneus
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 Biphyllidae (False Skin Beetles)
Genus Diplocoelus
Explanation of Names
Diplocoelus Guérin-Ménéville 1838
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1), dozens in the Old World
Range
throughout the Old World, primarily tropical (most diverse in Australia)(2); scarcely represented in the New World (much of NA east of 100°W(1))
Habitat
dead, fungus-infested trees; D. brunneus seems to prefer standing trunks, D. rudis, fallen logs/limbs(3)
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.Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.
3.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 10 January, 2007 - 10:06am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 February, 2015 - 11:30am

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