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Family Telegeusidae - Long-lipped Beetles

Telegeusis texensis Fleenor and Taber - Telegeusis texensis - male

Telegeusis nubifer? - Telegeusis nubifer

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Telegeusidae (Long-lipped Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Telegeusidae Leng 1920

Numbers

2 spp. in a single genus in our area(1), 10 spp. in 3 genera total(2)

Size

2.5-8 mm(1)

Range

neotropical group (Ecuador to sw. US)(1)

Remarks

females unknown (probably flightless), males rare but may be numerous at lights(1)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 20 December, 2008 - 9:33pm
Additional contributions by Graham M, v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2019 - 10:09pm

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