Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

Family ANOBIIDAE

(Death Watch Beetles)

(Table of Species)

Anobiids (299 NA spp) are scavengers feeding on dried organics and wood products. A few specimens (perhaps 9 species) in the genera Catorama, Ceanocara, Hadrobregmus, Sitodrepa, Trypopitys, Petalium?, Eutylistus?, and Xestobium have been collected. Most from inside buildings.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000