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Glischrochilus
Sign in to saveGlischrochilus (sometimes misspelled as Glisrochilus) is a genus of sap-feeding and predatory beetles under the family Nitidulidae, subfamily Cryptarchinae. Most members of this genus are commonly known as picnic beetles or beer bugs.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 152
- With media
- 37
- Family
- Nitidulidae
- Collections
- UMNH, INHS, UAM, PSUC, OMNH, UCM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Parent taxon
- Cryptarchinae
- Image
- Glischrochilus quadrisignatus (say).jpg
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Glischrochilus (sometimes misspelled as Glisrochilus) is a genus of sap-feeding and predatory beetles under the family Nitidulidae, subfamily Cryptarchinae. Most members of this genus are commonly known as picnic beetles or beer bugs.
==Description== Glischrochilus are oblong shiny black beetles with attractive yellow, red, or orange markings on their elytra. Their elytra are short and expose the upper surface of their last abdominal segments, a good way to distinguish them from the superficially similar but generally larger Megalodacne beetles. They are so similar that some species of Glischrochilus were once classified along with Megalodacne under the now reclassified genus Ips.
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