LYMEXYLOIDEA, Fleming, 1821

Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, Insecta Mundi 2014 (352), pp. 1-156 : 64

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scientific name	LYMEXYLOIDEA
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SUPERFAMILY LYMEXYLOIDEA View in CoL View at ENA

85. FAMILY LYMEXYLIDAE, The ship-timber beetles

Atractocerus braziliensis Lepeletier and Audinet-Serville 1825: 309 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 408; Spilman 1971: 7; Bennett and Alam 1985: 24; Ivie et al. 2008b: 248; Perez-Gelabert 2008: 105. Distribution. Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. Mexico View in CoL , Central America View in CoL to Brazil and Argentina; widespread Antilles and Latin America View in CoL . Notes. Adults are attracted to lights and larvae live in dying trunks and logs of various trees.