Mycetaea Stephens, 1830

Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2016, Annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of Connecticut, USA (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 15, pp. 279-289 : 286

Genus Mycetaea Stephens, 1830

Mycetaea subterranea (Fabricius, 1801) ( Figs. 13 & 14 ) = Mycetaea hirta (Marsham, 1802)

Length 1.5-1.8 mm, body ovate, convex, rufo testaceous, shining with sparse, erect, short pubescence. Head and thorax moderately punctate, pronotum transverse, broadest at middle, sides arcuate, sublateral carina more than twice distant from lateral margins at apex than at base. Elytral punctures coarser than pronotal ones and in rows. It lives in old tree trunks, cellars, green houses, beehives, dung heaps, and can be found inside and outside of nests of ants or birds. It is an adventive species widely distributed in North America.

Material studied:

New Haven Co.: New Haven, 6 May 1916, on decayed potato, W.E. Britton, 2 ex. ( CAES); New Haven , 4 February 1918, W.E. Britton, 2 ex. ( CAES) .

Figures

Figs. 13-14.- Mycetaea subterranea (Fabricius, 1801). 13.- Habitus (Photo by Christoph Benisch-www.kerbtier.de). 14.- Distributional map.