Cypherotylus californicus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Genus: | Cypherotylus |
| Species: | C. californicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cypherotylus californicus (Lacordaire, 1842)
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Cypherotylus californicus, sometimes known as the blue fungus beetle or blue pleasing fungus beetle, is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae. It is recorded from Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Kansas, and the Mexican state of Sonora.[1]
Biology[]
It starts its life in the spring when it hatches from an egg and pupates in the summer. It mates and lays eggs in the late summer and early fall. It feeds on the Conk Fungus it can find growing on logs and trees. Their elytra are blue with black dots, and it turns grey as they age.
Gallery[]
video of feeding on fungus
Cypherotylus californicus feeding on fungus
larva of Cypherotylus californicus
References[]
Further reading[]
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links[]
Media related to Cypherotylus californicus at Wikimedia Commons
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- Erotylidae
- Beetles described in 1842
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