A Triplax festiva in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/10/2020). Determined by Blaine Mathison/BugGuide.
Triplax festiva in Howard Co., Maryland (4/22/2025). (c) Matthew Beziat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Where To Find
In woodlands on bracket fungi; sometimes in surrounding leaf litter. Larvae and adults feed on Inonotus polypore. (BugGuide)
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| Triplax festiva | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Genus: | Triplax |
| Species: | T. festiva
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| Binomial name | |
| Triplax festiva Lacordaire, 1842
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Triplax festiva is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae.[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2] Larvae develop within fungi from the genus Inonotus. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Triplax festiva Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Triplax festiva Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "Triplax festiva Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Traylor, Clayton R.; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Cornish, J. Winston; Tigreros, Gabriel; McHugh, Joseph V. (14 March 2025). "Progress toward a list of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) in the southeastern USA". ZooKeys. 1232: 1–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 11976159. PMID 40201198.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
- Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns.
- White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin.
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