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Species Upis ceramboides - Roughened Darkling Beetle

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Stenochiinae
Tribe Cnodalonini
Genus Upis
Species ceramboides (Roughened Darkling Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Upis ceramboides (Linnaeus 1758)
Range
Holarctic; across n. NA & n. Eurasia
Habitat
on hard polypores