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Cartodere

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Cartodere constricta.jpg

| image_caption = Cartodere constricta

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Coleoptera

| subordo = Polyphaga

| familia = Latridiidae

| subfamilia = Latridiinae

| genus = Cartodere

| genus_authority = C. G. Thomson, 1859

}}

Cartodere is a genus of beetles in the family Latridiidae, containing the following species:{{Cite book |last=Rücker |first=Wolfgang H |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1184258874 |title=Checklist Latridiidae & Merophysiinae of the World. |issn= |oclc=1184258874}}

Description

Beetles of genus Cartodere have the pronotum margins deeply incised, eyes large with over 70 facets each, elytra with eight or fewer rows of punctate striae, and procoxae separated by a prosternal process.{{Cite journal |last=Majka |first=Christopher G. |last2=Langor |first2=David |last3=Rücker |first3=Wolfgang H. |date=2009 |title=Latridiidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, keys to identification, new synonyms, distribution, and zoogeography |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0008347X00000614/type/journal_article |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |language=en |volume=141 |issue=4 |pages=317–370 |doi=10.4039/n09-050 |issn=0008-347X}}

Habitat

Cartodere occur in stored food products in houses, grain elevators and feed mills. In the wild, they occur in various habitats including herbaceous vegetation, straw, grass, mouldy bark, hay, wood, moss, compost and animal nests.

Diet

Larvae and adults of Cartodere feed on mould in dead organic material.

Distribution

Cartodere can be found worldwide, i.e. the genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.{{Cite web |title=Cartodere C.G.Thomson, 1859 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1044380 |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}

Species

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Category:Latridiidae genera