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Tribe Cnemodinini

coleoptera - Cnemodinus Cnemodinus testaceus Cnemodinus testaceus Sand-colored with digging legs.  - Cnemodinus testaceus Beetle - Cnemodinus Cnemodinus testaceus Mojave-65 - Cnemodinus testaceus Mojave-65 - Cnemodinus testaceus
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 Cnemodinini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cnemodini Horn 1870 (invalid: based on preoccupied genus name)(1)
Explanation of Names
Cnemodinini Gebien 1910
Numbers
contains a single genus, with 3 spp. in our area(2)
Range
sw. US (UT-AZ-CA)(2)
Works Cited
1.Synoptic classification of the World Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) with a review of family group names
Bouchard, P., J. F. Lawrence, A. E. Davies, & A. F. Newton. 2005. Annales Zoologici 55(4): 499–530.
2.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.