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Genus Eleates

Conk beetles - Eleates depressus Found:  undescribed larva! - Eleates depressus Found:  undescribed larva! - Eleates depressus Found: undescribed larvae! - Eleates depressus Found: undescribed pupa! - Eleates depressus conk beetle - Eleates depressus Coleoptera  - Eleates depressus Coleoptera - Eleates depressus
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 Tenebrioninae
Tribe Bolitophagini
Genus Eleates
Explanation of Names
Eleates Casey 1886
Numbers
2 spp., both in our area(1)
Range
one sp. transcontinental (BC-NT-NB south to CA-PA-GA), another restricted to CA(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
2.California Beetle Project