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Species Cryptoglossa variolosa

Tenebrionid Beetle - Cryptoglossa variolosa

Variegated Death-feigning Beetle - Cryptoglossa variolosa

Death-feigning Beetle (ventral head) - Cryptoglossa variolosa

Death-feigning Beetle (face) - Cryptoglossa variolosa

Darklings and beer - Cryptoglossa variolosa

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 Pimeliinae

Tribe Cryptoglossini

Genus Cryptoglossa (Death-feigning Beetles)

Species variolosa (Cryptoglossa variolosa)

Explanation of Names

Cryptoglossa variolosa (Horn 1870)

Range

sw. US (CA-NM) & adjacent Mexico(1)

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.

Contributed by Kojun Kanda on 25 September, 2007 - 5:51pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2018 - 3:01pm

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