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Genus Asiopus

Beetle - Asiopus Black Texturey Beetle - Asiopus minimus Black Texturey Beetle - Asiopus minimus darkling beetle? - Asiopus minimus Darkling Convention - Asiopus aciculatus Alaetrinus minimus - Asiopus minimus - female Asiopus Punctate Darkling Beetles - Lateral Ventral - Asiopus minimus
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 Pedinini
Subtribe Platynotina
Genus Asiopus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated as a subgenus of Opatrinus Latreille 1829 and as Alaetrinus
Explanation of Names
Asiopus Sharp, 1891
Numbers
3 species in our area, 9 species total(1)
Range
A. aciculatus - sc. US to Mex. (KS-TX-NM; adventive in CA),
A. minimus - widely eastern (MA-MO to FL-TX; ?Canada), and
A. pullus s. FL (Key West; adventive in MD)(1)
Print References
Iwan D. (1995) Revision of the genus Opatrinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Platynotini). Genus 6(1): 1-90.
Michael A. Ivie, Rolf Aalbu, Maxwell V. L. Barclay, M. Andrew Johnston, Marcin Jan Kamiński, Kojun Kanda, Dariusz Iwan. Placement of the Orphan Genus Asiopus Sharp, 1891 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Adeliini/Platynotini) and the Synonymy of Alaetrinus Iwan, 1995. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 75(3), 594-598. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.594
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of the world Platynotini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Iwan D. 2002. Genus 13: 219-323.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 10 April, 2007 - 6:02am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2022 - 8:53pm

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