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Mycetophaginae Leach 1815

Description

SUBFAMILY MYCETOPHAGINAE

Litargus balteatus LeConte 1856: 14; Champion 1898: 410; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 469; Parsons 1975: 105; Ivie et al. 2008b: 252; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 44. Distribution. Bahamas, Cuba, Grenada, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. Mexico to Panama, USA (widespread); widespread New World; cosmopolitan. Notes. Occasionally in stored corn and grain.

Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus) 1758: 357 (Dermestes); Ramos 1946: 36; Parsons 1975: 106; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 44. = Typhaea fumata (Linnaeus) 1767: 564 (Dermestes), Champion 1898: 410; Grouvelle 1902: 768; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 469; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 89; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 278. Distribution. Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guana, Mona, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Vincent. USA (widespread); Mexico to Guatemala; widespread New World; cosmopolitan. Notes. The hairy fungus beetle. It feeds on fungi in moldy grains, seeds, and peanuts.

Notes

Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., 2010, The beetles of the island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions, pp. 1-77 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (144) on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352880

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Mycetophagidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Leach
Taxon rank
subFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Mycetophaginae Leach, 1815 sec. Peck, 2010

References

  • Champion, G. C. 1898. A list of the clavicorn Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1898: 393 - 412.
  • Parsons, C. T. 1975. Revision of Nearctic Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin 29: 93 - 108.
  • Ivie, M. A., K. A. Marske, I. A. Foley, and L. L. Ivie. 2008 b. Appendix 2. Species lists of the beetles, non-beetle hexapods and non-hexapod invertebrates of Montserrat. p. 237 - 311. In: R. P. Young (ed.). A biodiversity assessment of the Centre Hills, Montserrat. Durrell Conservation Monograph No. 1. Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust; Jersey, Channel Islands. 319 p. Online at http: // www. durrell. org / library / Document / Durrell _ Cons _ Monograph _ 1 _ full-report. pdf.
  • Turnbow, R. H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. 2008. An annotated checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) of the Bahamas. Insecta Mundi 0034: 1 - 64.
  • Ramos, J. A. 1946. The insects of Mona Island (West Indies). Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 30: 1 - 74.
  • Miskimen, G. W., and R. M. Bond. 1970. The insect fauna of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands (New York Academy of Sciences) 1 (part 1): 1 - 150.
  • Valentine, B. D., and M. A. Ivie. 2005. Beetles: Coleoptera. p. 274 - 282. In: J. Lazell (ed.). Islands: Fact and theory in nature. University of California Press; Berkeley. 382 p.