Bolitotherus

Bolitotherus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Bolitotherus
Species:
B. cornutus
Binomial name
Bolitotherus cornutus
Panzer, 1794

Bolitotherus cornutus is a North American species of darkling beetle known as the horned fungus beetle[1] or forked fungus beetle.[2] All of its life stages are associated with the fruiting bodies of a wood-decaying shelf fungus, commonly Ganoderma applanatum,[2] Ganoderma tsugae,[2] and Ganoderma lucidum.[3]

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