Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
Insects of Cedar Creek
Order COLEOPTERA
Family PTILIIDAE
(Feather-winged Beetles)
(Table of Species)
A few specimens of
Feather-winged Beetles
(107 NA spp) collected. These species feed on fungal spores in rotten wood, dung, litter. The genera
Acrotrichus
and
Ptenidium
represented in U/MN Collection for Minnesota.
jhaar@lter.umn.edu
Last updated May, 2000
