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Tribe Epitragini

Bronzed Beetle - Bothrotes canaliculatus Beetle Schoenicus puberula LeConte - Schoenicus puberulus Black Beetle - Bothrotes canaliculatus Epitragodes tomentosus Mature Bothrotes larva - Bothrotes Metopoloba pruinosa Epitragodes tomentosus
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 Epitragini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
world fauna revised in Freude (1967, 1968)(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Epitragini Blanchard 1845 (nomen protectum)
Numbers
16 spp. in 10 genera in our area(3), 33 genera worldwide(4)
Works Cited
1.Revision der Epitragini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). I. Teil
Freude H. 1967. Ent. Arb. Mus. Frey 18: 137-307.
2.Revision der Epitragini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). II Teil
Freude H. 1968. Ent. Arb. Mus. Frey 19: 32-143.
3.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.
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.