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The ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius), also known as the European red-bellied clerid, is a medium size insect, rather soft-bodied, with strong mandibles that can tear between the hard sclerotized integument of bark beetles. Larvae and adults are common predators of bark beetles in Europe.
They are sometimes called ant-like flower beetles or ant-like beetles. The family comprises over 3,500 species [1] in about 100 genera. Description.
Very little is known about the immature stages of ant nest beetles. Most appear to live in ant nests in their early stages of life. Although many are facultative or obligate myrmecophiles, most do not appear like ants (i.e. myrmecomorphic) and unlike in the case of myrmecophilous larval Lycaenidae, there appears to be no benefit gained by the ants in this association. [1]
Cyrtophorus verrucosus, commonly known as the ant-like longhorn beetle or ant-mimic longhorn beetle, [1] is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It is native to North America , more specifically southern Canada and the eastern United States .
Ant-like beetle may refer to: Ant-like flower beetle, a family of beetles known to consume small arthropods, pollen, fungi, and whatever else they can find; Ant-like leaf beetle, a family of beetles found on the undersides of the leaves of shrubs and trees; Ant-like stone beetle, a family of beetles known to feed on oribatid mites
These beetles occur worldwide, and the subfamily includes some 4,500 species in about 80 genera. Established as a family, they were reduced in status to a subfamily of Staphylinidae in 2009 [ 1 ] Many scydmaenine species have a narrowing between head and thorax and thorax and abdomen, resulting in a passing resemblance to ants that inspires ...
Beetles, both adults and larvae, are the prey of many animal predators including mammals from bats to rodents, birds, lizards, amphibians, fishes, dragonflies, robberflies, reduviid bugs, ants, other beetles, and spiders. [118] [119] Beetles use a variety of anti-predator adaptations to defend themselves.
Some myrmecophilous beetles are in the families Coccinellidae (e.g. the ladybird Thalassa saginata), Aphodiidae, Scarabaeidae, Lucanidae, Cholevidae, Pselaphidae, Staphylinidae, Histeridae, and Ptiliidae (some treated here as subfamilies). In ant-beetle associations, the myrmecophilous staphylinids are the most diverse of the beetle families.