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Genus Eleodes - Desert Stink Beetles

Another Eleodes ? - Eleodes hispilabris Eleodes 2 - Eleodes extricata Eleodes longicollis Eleodes (Discogenia) marginatus Eschscholtz - Eleodes marginata Unknowm Beetle 4072 - Eleodes obscura Small black teneb - Eleodes Id for this beetle, please - Eleodes suturalis Eleodes gracilis distans? - Eleodes gracilis
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 Amphidorini
Genus Eleodes (Desert Stink Beetles)
Other Common Names
Circus Beetles
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
recent changes in (1)
Explanation of Names
Eleodes Eschscholtz 1829
currently treated as feminine, which was overlooked or neglected by some authors
Numbers
New World's largest tenebrionid genus, with ~210 described spp. (~130 in our area, some with multiple sspp.) arranged into 16 subgenera (all but 3 in our area)(2)
Size
10‒50 mm(3)
Identification
subgenera defined based primarily on female genitalia(4)
keys to AZ spp. in (5)
review of the TX spp. in (6)
key to larvae in (3)
Range
w.NA (BC‒MB to Mexico); in our fauna, >40 spp. are either CA endemics or do not occur outside CA in the US(2)
Remarks
larvae of E. extricata, E. hispilabris, E. obsoleta, E. opaca, E. suturalis are considered pests; they feed on seeds, roots, and subterreanean stems(3)
Works Cited
1.Redefinition of the Eleodes Eschscholtz subgenera Tricheleodes Blaisdell and Pseudeleodes Blaisdell...
Johnston M.A. 2016. Ann. Zool. 66: 665-679.
2.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.
3.Larvae of the genus Eleodes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae): matrix-based descriptions, cladistic analysis, and key to late instars
Smith A.D., Dornburg R., Wheeler Q.D. 2014. ZooKeys 415: 217–268.
4.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
5.Amphidorini LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: keys and species accounts
Johnston M.A., Fleming D., Franz N.M., Smith A.D. 2015. Col. Bull. 69(mo4): 27-54.
6.The genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in Texas.
Triplehorn et al. 2009. The Coleopterists Bulletin 63(4): 413-437.