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Lymexylidae
Sign in to savethumb|An adult Lymexylon navale The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea.
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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyLymexylidae
Hylecoetus dermestoides Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801 Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985 Australymexylon Wheeler, 1986 Fusicornis Philippi, 1866 Hylecoetus Latreille, 1806 (= Elateroides Schaeffer, 1766) Hylecoetus dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1761) Lymexylon Fabricius, 1775 Lymexylon navale (Linnaeus, 1758) Melittomma Murray, 1867 Melittommopsis Lane, 1955 Promellittomma Wheeler, 1986 Urtea Paulus, 2004
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 231
- With media
- 26
- Family
- Lymexylidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, INHS, MSB, UNM, PSUC, CHAS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Panama, French Guiana, Australia, Vietnam, Costa Rica
Wikidata facts
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- Lymexylon navale.jpg
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- Lymexylidae
- taxon name
- Lymexylidae
- taxon common name
- verftsbiller
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Habitat and behavior
- Symbiotic relationship with fungi
- Species and genera
- Morphology
- Classification
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|An adult Lymexylon navale The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea.
==Habitat and behavior== thumb|Example of an infested tree Lymexylon, Elateroides, and Melittomma are pests to forest trees such as chestnut, poplar, and oak, and can be found worldwide. Some species are parasitic, causing decay in living trees and damaging timber structures such as houses and ships. Wood boring activities occur primarily in the larva stage, with the larvae damaging both sapwood and heartwood. Lymexylidae larvae bore into living and decaying wood where they consume the fungus Alloascoidea hylecoeti.
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