''Hemicoelus'' is a genus of
death-watch beetle
The deathwatch beetle (''Xestobium rufovillosum'') is a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings. The adult beetle is brown and measures on average long. Eggs are laid in dark crevices in old w ...
s in the family
Ptinidae
Ptinidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Bostrichoidea. There are at least 220 genera and 2,200 described species in Ptinidae worldwide. The family includes spider beetles and deathwatch beetles.
The Ptinidae family species are hard ...
. There are about 12 described species in ''Hemicoelus''.
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Species
These 12 species belong to the genus ''Hemicoelus'':
* '' Hemicoelus canaliculatus'' (Thomson, 1863) g
* ''Hemicoelus carinatus
''Hemicoelus carinatus'' is a species in the subfamily Anobiinae ("death-watch beetles"), in the order Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are harde ...
'' (Say, 1823) i c g b (eastern deathwatch beetle)
* '' Hemicoelus costatus'' (Aragona, 1830) g
* '' Hemicoelus defectus'' (Fall, 1905) i c g b
* '' Hemicoelus favonii'' Bukejs, Alekseev, Cooper, King & Mckellar, 2017 g
* '' Hemicoelus fulvicornis'' (Sturm, 1837) g
* '' Hemicoelus gibbicollis'' (LeConte, 1859) i c g b (California deathwatch beetle)
* '' Hemicoelus laticollis'' (Fall, 1905) i c g
* '' Hemicoelus nelsoni'' (Hatch, 1961) i c g
* '' Hemicoelus pusillus'' (Fall, 1905) i c g b
* '' Hemicoelus rufipennis'' (Duftschmid, 1825) g
* '' Hemicoelus umbrosus'' (Fall, 1905) i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
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Anobiinae
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