Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order COLEOPTERA

Family TROGOSSITIDAE

(Ostomatid Beetles?)

(Table of Species)

Two very dissimilar species in this small Family (64 NA spp) have been collected at Cedar Creek.  Tenebroidescorticallis is an elongate dark metallic blue species that is a predator under bark. Thymalus marginicollis is an oval convex species that is a predator in bracket fungi.
jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000