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Species Eleodes longicollis

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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)
No Taxon (subgenus Xysta)
Species longicollis (Eleodes longicollis)
Explanation of Names
Eleodes longicollis LeConte 1851
Range
sw. US (AZ-w.TX, KS) & Mexico (map)(1)
Remarks
"few species are so long, narrow, and large in AZ" (W.B. Warner, 30.x.2010)