Epuraea
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
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| image = Epuraea aestiva (Linné, 1758) (28983992963).png
| image_caption = Epuraea aestiva
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| taxon = Epuraea
| authority = Erichson, 1843
| synonyms = {{Taxon list
| Haptoncus | Murray, 1864
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Epuraea is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae, first described in 1843 by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson.{{Cite web |title=Australian Faunal Directory: Genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843 |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Epuraea;EPURAEINI |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=biodiversity.org.au |language=en}} There are at least 40 described species in Epuraea.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/37487|title=Epuraea Genus Information|website=BugGuide.net|access-date=2018-01-27}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=835489|title=Epuraea Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|access-date=2018-01-27}} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Jang |first=Yong Seok |last2=Kim |first2=Dong-Soon |date=2014-01-01 |title=The first report on the winter breeding life history of Epuraea domina (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in a citrus grove in Jeju, Korea |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026121941300241X |journal=Crop Protection |language=en |volume=55 |pages=68–73 |doi=10.1016/j.cropro.2013.10.008 |issn=0261-2194|url-access=subscription }} Some species occur in bumblebee nests.{{Citation |title=NITIDULIDAE |date=2002-06-19 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781420041231/chapters/10.1201/9781420041231-58 |work=American Beetles, Volume II |pages=325–329 |editor-last=Arnett |editor-first=Ross H. Jr |access-date=2023-06-19 |edition=0 |publisher=CRC Press |language=en |doi=10.1201/9781420041231-58 |isbn=978-0-429-12771-7 |editor2-last=Thomas |editor2-first=Michael C. |editor3-last=Skelley |editor3-first=Paul E. |editor4-last=Frank |editor4-first=J. Howard|url-access=subscription }} Epuraea beetles commonly overwinter underneath logs or in soil.
Description
According to a key to North American nitidulid genera, Epuraea has the following combination of features: head vertical, labrum free, prothorax not margined at base, elytra truncate apically to expose only pygidium (and, at most, the posterior edge of the penultimate abdominal tergite), middle and hind tibiae with two rows of small marginal spines on their outer edges, a tarsal formula of 5-5-5 (meaning each tarsus has five segments), and the first three tarsomeres bilobed.File:Epuraea rufa P1420029a.jpg
See also
References
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- Parsons, Carl T. (1943). "A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 92, no. 3, 121–278.
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book |author=Ross H. Arnett |date=30 July 2000 |title=American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-0212-1}}
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Epuraea}}
- [https://www.gbif.org/species/5738520 Epuraea: images & occurrence data] from GBIF
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Epuraea NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Epuraea]
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Category:Beetles described in 1843
Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
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