Trochoideus desjardinsi

Trochoideus desjardinsi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Endomychidae
Genus:	Trochoideus
Species:	T. desjardinsi
Binomial name
Trochoideus desjardinsi Guérin-Méneville, 1857

Trochoideus desjardinsi is a species of handsome fungus beetle in the family Endomychidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} It is found in Africa, North America, and Southern Asia. ^[1]

Distribution

The species is widely distributed in many Pacific and Indian islands and mainlands such as Andaman Islands, Borneo, Fiji, India, Java, Madagascar, Malay Peninsula, the Mascarene Islands, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand. It is also introduced to Florida in the United States. ^{[6] [7]}

Biology

They commonly inhabited in the dead leaves, in dead wood, and under bark. They are known to live in the nests of the ants Paratrechina longicornis and Anoplolepis longipes and termite species such as Macrotermes gilvus and Eurytermes ceylonicus . Adults are often collected from many economically important plants such as banana, in rotten papaya, in dead rachis of Angiopteris and rotting coconut husks. Adults are easily attracted to many light traps such as ethanol/turpentine traps, mercury vapor lights, black lights, and fluorescent light traps. ^[6]

References

1. "Trochoideus desjardinsi Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
2. "Trochoideus desjardinsi species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
3. "Trochoideus desjardinsi". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
4. "Trochoideus desjardinsi Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
5. "Trochoideus desjardinsi Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
6. "The Coleoptera of the Seychelles islands" (PDF). repository.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
7. "Insects of Micronesia" (PDF). hbs.bishopmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-08-01.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• Skelley, P.E.; Burgess, G.R. (1995). "Trochoideus desjardinsi Guérin found in Florida (Endomychidae: Trochoideinae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 49 (3): 289–291. ISSN   0010-065X.
• Skelley, Paul E.; Leschen, Richard A.B. (2002). Arnett, R.H. (ed.). Family 92. Endomychidae Leach 1815. American Beetles Vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 366–370. ISBN   0-8493-0954-9.
• Strohecker, H.F. (1986). "Family: Endomychidae". A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture.
• Tomaszewska, K. Wioletta (2005). "Phylogeny and generic classification of the subfamily Lycoperdininae with a re-analysis of the family Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Annales Zoologici. 55. ISSN   0003-4541.
• Tomaszewska, K. Wioletta (2000). "Morphology, phylogeny and classification of adult Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)". Annales Zoologici. 50 (4): 449–558. ISSN   0003-4541.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Trochoideus desjardinsi at Wikimedia Commons