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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Ulomini » Uloma » Uloma impressa

Species Uloma impressa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Uloma sp? - Uloma impressa Burgandy Beetle - Uloma impressa Beetle - Uloma impressa Darkling beetle - Uloma impressa darkling beetle - Uloma impressa Uloma impressa Tenebrionid - Uloma impressa darkling beetle - Uloma impressa
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 Ulomini
Genus Uloma
Species impressa (Uloma impressa)
Explanation of Names
Uloma impressa Melsheimer 1846
Size
11-12 mm(1)
Identification
apical antennomere rounded at tip; elytral intervals rather densely punctulate, middle plate of mentum elongate-oval (not transverse, as in U. punctulata or U. imberbis)(1)(2)
Range
ON & e US (NH-GA to WI-*TX)(1)(3)(4)
*Brazos Co. =v=
Habitat
under bark of oak (Quercus) and Beech (Fagus)
Works Cited
1.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.
2.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections
Contributed by tom murray on 8 May, 2005 - 4:11pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 30 November, 2016 - 7:54pm

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