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Tribe Edrotini

Edrotes rotundus Beetle ID request! Fuzzy Beetle in Kelso Dunes near Mojave Desert - Edrotes ventricosus Edrotes rotundus Teneb? Metoponium? - Metoponium beetle  January bug - Metoponium Edrotini
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 Edrotini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eurymetopini(1)
Explanation of Names
Edrotini Lacordaire 1859
Numbers
193 spp. in 22 genera in our area, many more in the neotropics(2)
Range
sw US (one sp. reaches AB-SK) & much of the New World(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.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.