Cartodere

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Genus of beetles

title: "Cartodere" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["latridiidae", "latridiidae-genera", "taxa-named-by-carl-gustaf-thomson"] description: "Genus of beetles" topic_path: "general/latridiidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartodere" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of beetles ::

| image = Cartodere constricta.jpg | image_caption = Cartodere constricta | taxon = Cartodere | authority = C. G. Thomson, 1859

Cartodere is a genus of beetles in the family Latridiidae.

Description

Beetles of genus Cartodere have the pronotum margins deeply incised, eyes large with over 70 facets each, elytra with eight or fewer rows of punctate striae, and procoxae separated by a prosternal process.

Habitat

Cartodere occur in stored food products in houses, grain elevators and feed mills. In the wild, they occur in various habitats including herbaceous vegetation, straw, grass, mouldy bark, hay, wood, moss, compost and animal nests.

Diet

Larvae and adults of Cartodere feed on mould in dead organic material.

Distribution

Cartodere can be found worldwide, i.e. the genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

References

References

  1. Rücker, Wolfgang H. "Checklist Latridiidae & Merophysiinae of the World.".
  2. Majka, Christopher G.. (2009). "Latridiidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, keys to identification, new synonyms, distribution, and zoogeography". The Canadian Entomologist.
  3. "Cartodere C.G.Thomson, 1859".

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