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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Coniontini » Dune Beetles (Coelus) » Globose Dune Beetle (Coelus globosus)

Species Coelus globosus - Globose Dune Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Beach Beetle - Coelus globosus Beach Beetle - Coelus globosus Coelus globosus Coelus globosus LeConte - Coelus globosus Globose Dune Beetle - Coelus globosus Coelus globosus? - Coelus globosus Coelus globosus? - Coelus globosus Coelus globosus? - Coelus globosus
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 Coniontini
Genus Coelus (Dune Beetles)
Species globosus (Globose Dune Beetle)
Other Common Names
Globose Dune Beetle(1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Coelus globosus LeConte 1851
Identification
populations vary in size and punctation, but the deeply emarginate epistoma and setation extending only to the frontoclypeal suture separate this species from others(2):
Range
CA(2)
Habitat
Coastal dunes (foredunes & sand hummocks, generally not beyond 50m from )(2)
Works Cited
1.California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Special Animals List.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB). 2016. Periodic publication. 51 pp.
2.Biology and systematics of the genus Coelus (Coleoptera: Tentyriidae)
J.T. Doyen. 1976. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 49(4): 595-624.
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 9 February, 2010 - 4:33pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 December, 2018 - 7:29pm

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