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Genus Coelocnemis

Eleodes? - Coelocnemis Darkling Beetle - Coelocnemis Giant Eleodes - Coelocnemis Coelocnemis magna Coelocnemis Eleodes?  - Coelocnemis - female Coelocnemis? - Coelocnemis dilaticollis Coelocnemis californica - Coelocnemis dilaticollis
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 Stenochiinae
Tribe Cnodalonini
Genus Coelocnemis
Explanation of Names
Coelocnemis Mannerheim 1843
'hollow shin'
Numbers
7 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
Coelocnemis, like Eleodes, stand on their heads and emit defensive secretions from the tip of their abdomen, but are readily distinguished from Eleodes by having two rows of fine golden brown hairs on the lower half of the inner face of the tibiae(2).
Range
BC‒AB and w.US(3)(1)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Field Guide to Beetles of California
Arthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue. 2006. University of California Press.
3.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
4.Systematics of the Genus Coelocnemis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Doyen, J.T. 1973. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 73.