Broad-horned Flour Beetle
Bolitotherus cornutus
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
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Bolitotherus cornutus is a North American species of darkling beetle known as the horned fungus beetle or forked fungus beetle. All of its life stages are associated with the fruiting bodies of a wood-decaying shelf fungus, commonly Ganoderma applanatum, Ganoderma tsugae, and Ganoderma lucidum. Description Adults are brown, armored beetles, 10–12 mm (0.
Bolitotherus cornutus es una especie de coleóptero polífago de la familia Tenebrionidae propio de Norteamérica. En inglés se conoce con el nombre común de forked fungus beetle, el cual hace referencia a los dos grandes cuernos del pronoto y a su preferencia por habitar entre hongos tipo escudo (Polyporaceae). Identificación Los adultos son sexualmente dimórficos respecto a la presencia de cuernos.
Distribution
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