Episernus is a genus of beetles"Genus Episernus - BugGuide.Net", BugGuide.net, web:BG-412. ranging in the Holarctic and of western distribution in North America, including the Palearctic and the Nearctic. Episernus is similar to Ernobius, but the side margin of the pronotum in the anterior part is effaced, and the antennae are 10-segmented. They consume conifers. For males, the body is more slender. In females, the antennae are shorter.
Selected species Episernus angulicollis Thomson, 1863 Episernus champlaini Fisher 1919 (Ernobius) Episernus ganglbaueri Schilsky, 1898 Episernus gentilis (Rosenhauer, 1847) Episernus granulatus Weise, 1887 Episernus henschi Reitter, 1901 Episernus hispanus Kiesenwetter, 1877 Episernus pyrenaeus Maran, 1941 Episernus striatellus (C. Brisout de Barneville, 1863) Episernus sulcicollis Schilsky, 1898 Episernus taygetanus Maran, 1941 Episernus trapezoideus Fall, 1905 (Ernobius) Episernus turcicus Zahradník, 1998
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External links
Episernus at Fauna Europaea