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Genus Gonocephalum

Beetle - Gonocephalum sericeum Beetle - Gonocephalum sericeum Brownish Darkling Beetle with large, flat pronotum. - Gonocephalum sericeum Brownish Darkling Beetle with large, flat pronotum. - Gonocephalum sericeum Tenebrionid - Gonocephalum Tenebrionid - Gonocephalum Tenebrionid - Gonocephalum Tenebrionid - Gonocephalum
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 Opatrini
Genus Gonocephalum
Explanation of Names
Gonocephalum Chevrolat 1849
Numbers
a single (adventive) species in our area(1), >400 spp. total
Range
throughout the Old World; in our area, CA(1)
Works Cited
1.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.