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Tribe Eustrophini

Small Hairy Beetle - Eustrophopsis bicolor

Eustrophopsis? - Eustrophopsis indistinctus

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 Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Eustrophinae

Tribe Eustrophini

Explanation of Names

Eustrophini Gistel 1848

Numbers

3 genera, with 9 spp. in our area and ~70 total (all but 9 spp. are in Eustrophopsis)(1)

Range

Eustrophopsis, the largest genus of the subfamily, is widespread in the New World & Subsaharan Africa; the other 2 genera are both holarctic(2)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the Eustrophinae (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) of America north of Mexico Pollock D.A. 2012. Zookeys 188: 1-153.

2.	Review of the Canadian Eustrophinae (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) Pollock D.A. 2008. ZooKeys 2: 261-290.

Contributed by v belov on 23 January, 2015 - 5:05pm
Last updated 2 September, 2023 - 9:27am

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