Hot nights lead to dispersal of rare saproxylic beetles.

Aulonium trisulcus last night in Bengeo garden, distinctive species that occurs in galleries of elm bark beetles. @bugmanjones.bsky.social @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social #Zopheridae #attractedtolight

#LiteratureNotice Hinson. New State Record for the Eastern #IroncladBeetles, Phellopsis obcordata (Kirby) ( #Coleoptera: #Zopheridae), from South Carolina, USA doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #NewRecords

#LiteratureNotice Domínguez-Monge et al. First Report of the Association of Phloeonemus interruptus with Persian Lime in Central Veracruz, Mexico doi.org/10.3958/059.... #Beetle #Beetles #NewRecords #Zopheridae #IroncladBeetles

#LiteratureNotice Hinson & Gompel. Bionomics and New State Record for Bitoma carinata (Leconte), an Uncommonly Collected Colydiine ( #Coleoptera: #Zopheridae) from North Carolina, USA doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #NewRecords #IroncladBeetles

#LiteratureNotice Temreshev. First record of the genus Colobicus Latreille, 1807 ( #Coleoptera, #Zopheridae) for Kazakhstan doi.org/10.37828/em.... #Beetle #Beetles #IroncladBeetles #NewRecords

#10, Zopheridae, are almost always big crunchy guys or little elongate guys. EXCEPT FOR MONOMMATIDS, WHO ARE NOW ZOPHERIDS

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

You literally have to hammer pins through most ironclad beetle (Zopheridae) specimens for scientific preparation because their exoskeletons are so thick

I’ve only found one species so far in each of the next 3 beetle families: Hallomenus binotatus in Tetratomidae (4x to light at home), Mordellochroa abdominalis in Mordellidae (twice by day) and Aulonium trisulcus now in Zopheridae (4x to light at 3 sites). Few records of the last one in Norfolk.

Hailing from the Family Zopheridae (collectively "Ironclad Beetles") Nosoderma diabolicum is a warty, lumbering little beetle. Mostly herbivorous/fungivorous (though they will happily eat anything they find) They can be found in the same places you'd find any other desert beetles, under stuff

クロヒメヒラタホソカタ
右のムクゲキスイは普通にヨツモン？

Little is known about ironclad #beetles (Zopheridae) in Bulgaria. A new study changes that, delivering an updated checklist of 21 species, fresh distribution #data for 14 of them, and the first recorded sighting of 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪 in the country. See the checklist here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

ICYMI: Revision of the Synchita variegata species group (Coleoptera: Zopheridae, Colydiinae)

Revision of the Synchita variegata species group (Coleoptera: Zopheridae, Colydiinae)

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: First record of the genus Colobicus Latreille, 1807 (Coleoptera, Zopheridae) for Kazakhstan https://www.gbif.org/dataset/cc8a6f16-af60-4018-8f5f-ec75a0e023fe