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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Asidini » Pelecyphorus

Genus Pelecyphorus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
The bottom one is Parasida - Pelecyphorus liratus Stenosides texanus (Wickham) - Pelecyphorus texanus Pelecyphorus (Stenosides) anastomosis (Say) - Pelecyphorus anastomosis Tenebrionid, Asidini - Pelecyphorus liratus Philolithus actuosus? - Pelecyphorus anastomosis Pelecyphorus liratus? - Pelecyphorus liratus Arizona Beetle for ID - Pelecyphorus liratus Arizona Beetle for ID - Pelecyphorus liratus
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 Asidini
Genus Pelecyphorus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
treated to include Astrotus, Plesiasida, Poliorcetes, Sicharbas, Stenosides, Ucalegon, and Zaleucus as subgenera(1); species level revision of the genus in preparation(2)
Explanation of Names
Pelecyphorus Champion 1884
Numbers
6 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area, ~50 spp. in 7 subgenera total(3)(1)
Size
6–23 mm(2)
Range
sw. US (KS-CO to TX-AZ) & Mexico(2)
Remarks
not yet in guide:
P. (Astrotus) alveolatus (Casey, 1912) [TX]
Works Cited
1.Smith A.D. tenebrioniDBase
2.Phylogenetic revision of the North American Asidini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Smith A.D. 2013. Systematic Entomology 38: 585–614.
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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 February, 2007 - 5:04pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, margarethe brummermann, v belov
Last updated 6 March, 2023 - 4:16pm

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