Epuraea

Epuraea is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae, first described in 1843 by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson.[1][2] There are at least 40 described species in Epuraea.[1][3] Their most notable food source is sap but these beetles also feed on organic matter such as fruits, flowers, fungi, decaying plant tissue, and the tissue of dead animals. [4] Epuraea beetles commonly overwinter underneath logs or in soil. [5]

Epuraea rufa

Epuraea
Epuraea aestiva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Nitidulidae
Subfamily: Epuraeinae
Genus: Epuraea
Erichson, 1843
Synonyms
  • Haptoncus Murray, 1864

See also

References
  1. "Epuraea Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. "Australian Faunal Directory: Genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  3. "Epuraea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. Jang, Yong Seok; Kim, Dong-Soon (1 January 2014). "The first report on the winter breeding life history of Epuraea domina (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in a citrus grove in Jeju, Korea". Crop Protection. 55: 68–73. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2013.10.008. ISSN 0261-2194.
  5. Jang, Yong Seok; Kim, Dong-Soon (1 January 2014). "The first report on the winter breeding life history of Epuraea domina (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in a citrus grove in Jeju, Korea". Crop Protection. 55: 68–73. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2013.10.008. ISSN 0261-2194.
  • Habeck, Dale H. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 77. Nitidulidae Latreille 1802". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 311–315.
  • Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.

Further reading
  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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