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Placonotus macrognathus | |
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Genus: | Placonotus MacLeay, 1871
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Placonotus is a genus of beetles in the family Laemophloeidae. There are 40 currently recognized species, known from all continents except Antarctica. Placonotus species are small (~2mm), elongate, flattened beetles, characterized by long filiform antennae, presence of a frontoclypeal suture, open anterior coxal cavities, and broadly rounded intercoxal process of abdominal ventrite III. Males have the 8th abdominal segment modified to form claspers used during mating. [1] Adults and larvae are found under dead bark, where they feed on fungi. Currently recognized species are:
The genus has been treated taxonomically for several geographical regions: the New World; [1] Africa; [2] Europe; [3] and India. [4] The Asian, Pacific, and Australian faunas have not been worked and there are probably many unassigned and undescribed species.
Placonotus | |
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Placonotus macrognathus | |
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Genus: | Placonotus MacLeay, 1871
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Placonotus is a genus of beetles in the family Laemophloeidae. There are 40 currently recognized species, known from all continents except Antarctica. Placonotus species are small (~2mm), elongate, flattened beetles, characterized by long filiform antennae, presence of a frontoclypeal suture, open anterior coxal cavities, and broadly rounded intercoxal process of abdominal ventrite III. Males have the 8th abdominal segment modified to form claspers used during mating. [1] Adults and larvae are found under dead bark, where they feed on fungi. Currently recognized species are:
The genus has been treated taxonomically for several geographical regions: the New World; [1] Africa; [2] Europe; [3] and India. [4] The Asian, Pacific, and Australian faunas have not been worked and there are probably many unassigned and undescribed species.